I got to sing with Leona Williams “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone”

What a treat it was to get to sing with the fabulous and what I consider the queen of country music, Miss Leona Williams.❤️🎶👑 She was kind enough to ask me to sing with her on stage in Missouri after she seen my grave tribute to her late husband, songwriter and singer Mr. Dave Kirby.✝️🎶 Leona Belle Helton was born January 7, 1943, in Vienna, Missouri. Active in her family's band since childhood, she had a radio program on KWOS in Jefferson City, Missouri, when she was fifteen. Later on, she worked as a bass guitarist and backing vocalist in Loretta Lynn's road band. By 1968, Williams signed to the Hickory record label and released two singles: "Once More" and "Country Girl with Hot Pants On." In 1976, she recorded the album San Quentin's First Lady for MCA Records with The Strangers, which was the first country album recorded by a female artist inside a prison. She also joined Merle Haggard's road band The Strangers in the mid-1970s, supplanting his estranged wife, Bonnie Owens. Leona wrote two of Merle's No. 1 hits, "Someday When Things Are Good", and "You Take Me For Granted". She also wrote songs for Connie Smith--"Dallas", Loretta Lynn--"Get Whatcha Got And Go", and others. Between 1978 and 1983, she was married to Haggard, and in 1978, the two charted in the country Top Ten with the song "The Bull and the Beaver." She recorded two singles for Elektra Records in 1981, and charted another duet with Haggard titled "We're Strangers Again." She later married singer-songwriter Dave Kirby in 1985, and remained married to him until his 2004 death. From 2005 she was with Ferlin Husky, and remained with him for the last six years of his life. Williams continues to tour with her son, Ron Williams. In 2017, Williams won the Honky Tonk Female honour at the Ameripolitan Music Awards. Dave Kirby grave tribute.✝️🎶    • Dave Kirby “IS ANYBODY GOIN’ TO SAN ANTONE...   Be sure to like, share and subscribe so you won’t miss any future adventures.👍🔔