Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
They go together in his latest novel, as they will for readers who realize it might be his last. An elderly woman once told me she was making a long trip back to her hometown for the little ...
NEW YORK — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian and ...
Richard Smallwood, a singer and pianist best known for his contemporary gospel music hit “Total Praise,” died Tuesday (Dec. 30). Smallwood was 77. He died of complications of kidney failure at a ...
In 2017, the narrator in country hitmaker Chris Janson’s song “Fix a Drink” seemed exhausted by party politics. “I turn on Fox News and then CNN/But it’s the same dang thing all over again,” Janson ...
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