Joining McEntire as inductee was Jean Shepard, who was among the first pioneering women to clear the way for performers like McEntire to reinvent country music from a woman's perspective. Shepard, ...
Country Singer Jean Shepard loved Chattanooga. She told the late Ray Hobbs with WDOD Radio, she’d move here if it wasn’t for the Grand Ole Opry. The Oklahoma native visited with the country DJ a lot.
Benny Birchfield, the husband of the late Country Music Hall of Fame singer Jean Shepard, was stabbed and his granddaughter killed Saturday. Birchfield was found outside of his home by police, injured ...