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NOVEMBER 2016 Volume 47 Number 11 Issue 561
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III,, Douglas McPherson, Stephen O’ Hanlon, Rob Patterson, Roland Purdy, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Danielle Smith, Alison Stokes, Tom Travis, Walt Trott
Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory
Photographers Helen Parish, Patricia Presley, Ian Tilbury, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer
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News
The suspect in the murder of singer Tommy Cash’ s granddaughter Courtney Cash( above) and an assault on her live-in boyfriend William
Guilty plea
Second time around
Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London
A. Johnson, has pleaded guilty. Wayne Masciarella of Cape May, N. J., entered his plea on a first-degree murder charge, during a Sept. 13 hearing in Putnam County Circuit Court, Tenn., on the 2014 stabbing death of Cash, then 23, her body stuffed into a cedar box. Masciarella, who allegedly held the couple captive in their home for days, fled after the fatal altercation, and was arrested in Cookeville, Tenn. Reportedly Johnson had fled from a window in a back room, carrying his and Courtney’ s year-old baby( Cameron). According to sources, there are some discrepancies in Johnson’ s recall of the tragedy, notably that when Masciarella forcibly injected them with meth, Johnson had not previously used the drug; however, reports indicate he tested positive to meth some 10 days earlier. No word yet on a trial date.( Tommy Cash, of course, is known for hits like Six White Horses, and as the younger brother of the late Johnny Cash.)
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Ex-child star Billy Gilman, who excited country fans in his pre-teens with the single One Voice, proved a hit competing Sept. 20 on NBC-TV’ s reality series The Voice, bringing the show’ s four judges to their feet to cheer his cover of Adele’ s song When We Were Young. The judges were Miley Cyrus, Adam Noah Levine, Alicia Keys and Blake Shelton( who didn’ t recognise him at first, but had once shared a stage with Billy). Despite three Top 10 albums, Gilman, now 28, apparently got lost in the shuffle when his voice changed. Cyrus knew it was the same Gilman, who opened shows for her dad Billy Ray in his heyday, and offered to coach him now:“ I’ ve seen you. I’ d love to help you now become the new Billy, because I had to make that decision and I know how I want people to see me.” Still, Billy opted for Levine to take him under his wing. Meantime viewer LeAnn Rimes, also a former child star, Tweeted:“ So proud of you my friend! @ Billy Gilman, you made me cry yet again. # TheVoicePremiere.”
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