{"id":6938,"date":"2019-08-27T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:41:54","slug":"dottie-rambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateoftheozarks.net\/showcase\/2019\/08\/27\/dottie-rambo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dottie Rambo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dottie Rambo<\/h1>\n

BY JOSHUA HESTON<\/h2>\n

He looked beyond my faults and saw my needs:<\/span> A simple statement of faith. A revolutionary Christianity.<\/p>\n

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Plate 1.<\/p><\/div>\n

Joyce Reba Luttrell \u2014 Dottie Rambo \u2014 was born on March 2, 1934, in Madisonville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

She is remembered as a legendary songwriter, having penned upwards of 2,500 songs. Many of those songs became Christian standards, recorded not only by Rambo, but by an eclectic list of the world\u2019s greatest and brightest talents.<\/p>\n

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Plate 2.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dottie Rambo would win a number of prestigious awards, including a Grammy in 1968 for her album It\u2019s The Soul Of Me.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was the classic American success story, rising from rural hardship to acclaimed greatness. Despite this, Rambo presented a problem for traditional sensibilities \u2014 forcing many to look at Christianity in a very different way.<\/p>\n

She could appear a controversial, tragic figure. Dottie\u2019s longtime marriage to Buck Rambo would end in divorce. She suffered devastating financial setbacks.<\/p>\n

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Plate 3.<\/p><\/div>\n

Rambo developed a passionate, irreverent style on and off stage.<\/p>\n

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Plate 4.<\/p><\/div>\n

Proud of her close working relationship with Governor Jimmie Davis (D, Louisiana), she wrote a support song for Ronnie Page (R, Tennessee) during his campaign.<\/p>\n

Her family relationships \u2014 from an early age \u2014 might best be defined as dysfunctional.<\/p>\n

Remembered as the greatest Christian songwriter since Fanny Crosby, Dottie Rambo didn’t make church music for a staid, traditional America. In her own words, \u201cI love God’s people, don’t you? I love the sinners. Jesus was always getting into trouble sitting with the sinners. Scribes and Pharisees didn’t like it. Ask me if He cared!\u201d<\/p>\n

And in the end, it is her music which continues to resonate as she wrote from her own hurts and trials \u2014 without condemnation.<\/p>\n

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Plate 5.<\/p><\/div>\n

She wrote that heaven waits for the believer, regardless of success, status, ethnicity, lifestyle or denomination.<\/p>\n

She wrote of a revolutionary Christianity \u2014 an amazing grace \u2014 that allows for a personal friendship with God.<\/p>\n

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Plate 6.<\/p><\/div>\n

Never perfect, never pious, Joyce Reba Luttrell \u2014 that young Kentucky girl kicked out of her home at the age of 12 for becoming a Christian \u2014 would leave us with a simple message: Jesus loves and Jesus saves, no matter what the rest of the world says.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Dottie Rambo.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

DOTTIE RAMBO ON PORTER WAGONER…<\/h2>\n

\u201cPorter Wagoner. He was a hoot, wasn\u2019t he? I loved that man. We were sitting in the studio and he said, \u2018You know, Dottie, God has been good. I\u2019ve had a miracle. I had an aneurysm in my stomach.\u2019 And he said, \u2018Dottie, we’ve both been sheltered in the arms of God.\u2019 And I thought, Porter, did you have to just tear me up when you said that?\u201d[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

DOTTIE RAMBO ON HER FAVORITE SONGS…<\/h2>\n

[I\u2019ve written] around 2,500 songs \u2014 something like that. Mama had 11 kids. Half of \u2019em were ugly. Half of \u2019em were pretty. It is that way [with my songs]. I always call my songs my babies. I\u2019m so far behind in my songs. In my attach\u00e8 case in my angel room, I don’t know how many are in there \u2014 about 20 in there that need to be finished and some are just about there.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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