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Shai Littlejohn

July 27, 2017 by johnnoltner

Shai Littlejohn was trained as a lawyer and worked at a firm in Washington, D.C., until she decided she wanted to be “free of schedules, free of being tied to a clock, of needing to have a hierarchy of titles and income.” Shai went back to school to pursue her love of music and now balances her time between practicing law and working as a country singer and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. “I don’t have to regret all those dreams that went unfulfilled.” When […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: belief, content, freedom, nashville, sacrifice, songwriter, tennessee

Where do you stand?

January 31, 2017 by johnnoltner

***I just finished reading a book called The Nightingale. Nazi Germany rolled into France and caught its citizens by surprise. The world changed quickly and dramatically. The two main characters, sisters Isabelle and Vianne, come to a realization of what is happening in different ways…at different speeds. Isabelle is young and single. She responds to the horrors of war swiftly and boldly. She joins the resistance immediately and smuggles downed Allied pilots across the border into Spain. Vianne is focused […]

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Tony Thomas

January 10, 2017 by johnnoltner

Tony Thomas was born and raised in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Tennessee. He worked in the coal mines and never finished high school. Tony records folk musicians in rural areas in an effort to preserve the local culture. He is also a singer and a songwriter himself. Tony says he has written more than 200 songs and when he dies, they are all going to be popular. “When something touches my life some way or has an impact, I usually write […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: appalachia, charity, clinton, community, cumberland, faith, folk, music, singer, tennessee, traditional

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Shai Littlejohn

Where do you stand?

Tony Thomas