Porter Wagoner's funeral set for Thursday
Monday, October 29, 2007 – The funeral of Grand Ole Opry star Porter Wagoner will be held Thursday at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.
Wagoner, 80, died of lung cancer Sunday night after being diagnosed only several weeks earlier.
Visitation will be held from 2-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 at Woodlawn Funeral Home, 660 Thompson Lane, Nashville. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday. Internment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery following the funeral.
Contributions can be made to the Alive Hospice or the Opry Trust Fund.
The visitation and funeral are open to the public.
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CD reviews for Porter Wagoner


Porter Wagoner's second Shell Point album finds him in fine voice, with supple support from his regular band, The Wagonmasters, and a finely picked collection of tunes. The album title is one to take with a grain of salt, as Wagoner's never been hugely "plugged" in the first place. Still, the electric guitars give way to steel, dobro and acoustic picking, and the drums keep to a polite level. The result would sound as natural in 1962 as it does here in 2002.
The near-acoustic backing provides ...
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