“A COUNTRY LIVING LEGEND” – by Des Kelly HE IS ONE OF A VERY FEW ACTUAL LIVING LEGENDS OF COUNTRY MUSIC, OR THE “MUSIC OF LIFE”, AS I REFER TO IT. HAS BEEN AROUND WITH PAST ICONS (IN MY BOOK), SUCH AS MERLE HAGGARD, GEORGE JONES, RAY PRICE, AND CHARLEY PRIDE, TO NAME JUST A FEW, STILL PLAYS AN ACOUSTIC/ELECTRIC GUITAR THAT HAS CERTAINLY SEEN BETTER DAYS, NAMED TRIGGER (AFTER ROY ROGER’S HORSE), HAS “BEEN THERE & DONE THAT”, WITH THE BEST OF THEM, INCLUDING THE LATE, GREAT WAYLON JENNINGS, HE CERTAINLY LOOKS THE PART, AND HIS AGE, AND DOES NOT EVER BOTHER TO EVEN TRY TO LOOK ANY YOUNGER THAN HE IS, ALTHOUGH WILLIE NELSON WAS QUITE A HANDSOME YOUNG DUDE DURING HIS HALCYON DAYS, QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO. WHAT STRUCK ME ABOUT WILLIE NELSON WAS HIS “STYLE” OF SINGING. SURE, HIS TONES ARE SLIGHTLY MORE NASAL THAN ...

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When You Are Gone – by Gehan Gunasekera For all those Jim Reeves fans, here’s a song that was released in 1963, in the album A Touch of Sadness. Written by Reeves with Dean Manuel, the single looks at the sadness in a relationship when the other has left.   I found this song to be quite emotional, as one’s mind keeps trying to ease the heartache (My heart won’t believe all these stores I tell!!)   Hope you will enjoy this upload, and would be delighted for you to share it with all your friends and family   Vocals: Gehan Gunasekera   Recorded and Produced at Banora Studios, Banora Point NSW 2486   Song: When You Are Gone Artist: Tony Wall Album: Tony Wall Remembers Jim Reeves ...

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Servant Leadership – New wine in Old Wine-skin – By Oscar E.V. Fernando Servant Leadership (SL) is a term, coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in his essay on SL first published in 1970, on propounding a corporate management technique: it says the leader should be affectionately considerate to his subordinate-who in turn will cause a ripple effect. Much waters have flown under the bridge since the Dickensian cruelty to children in the then newly opened factories with the industrial revolution. Following are highlights of the SL theory; A leader should be a person that workers can relate to priority is to serve rather than to command to ensure success and power to the employee. to appreciate that a servant can become a leader only if the leader is first a servant to his subordinate. Such behavior of a leader must result in workers becoming healthier and wiser with self-improvement and eventually ...

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