Fall Favorites

Craig Morgan

Grew up … 35 miles west of Nashville in Kingston Springs, Tennessee

Fall Favorites … The leaves turning colors, deer season, and cooler weather

Joe Nichols

Grew up … Rogers, Arkansas

Favorite Fall Memory … I always loved going to Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO in the late fall. It wasn’t very far from Rogers, so we always tried to go there when I was little. I always enjoyed it so much that I took my daughter to experience it last year. They have the harvest themed things, as well as the Christmas stuff out.  Everyone is always in a great mood and looking forward to the holidays.  It just puts you in a great mood.

 

Jeff Bates

Grew up … Bunker Hill, Mississippi

Favorite Fall Memory … My favorite memory of the fall season will always be getting to go the school Halloween Carnival in the sixth grade. After dunking for apples, I got my first kiss underneath the bleachers from a girl I really liked named Angela.

Bill Anderson

Grew up … Columbia, South Carolina, and Decatur, Georgia

Fall Favorites … I am a big sports fan, and there's nothing like the baseball playoffs and the World Series colliding with the beginning of football season. For a few weeks every year, I am in sports-junkie heaven!

Richie McDonald (Lonestar)

Grew up … in the west Texas town of Lubbock

Favorite Fall Memory … My favorite memories of fall were the dew covered mornings and cool west Texas nights that were really refreshing after a long dry hot summer.

Keech Rainwater (Lonestar)

Grew up … Plano Texas

Favorite Fall Memory … Back to school and meeting new people.

Jeannie Seely

Grew up … Northwestern Pennsylvania

Favorite Fall Memory ... there was the beautiful foliage because we always got a good frost which turned the leaves into gorgeous colors before they turned brown … and of the hayrides … and going back to school … getting new  clothes … going to the dances and ballgames … and of course looking for a new boyfriend!

Fall Favorites … What I look forward to now is the fall colors, going to the mountains, getting new clothes … maybe some dancing … maybe some ballgames … maybe a new boyfriend! (Just kidding!)

Trent Tomlinson

Grew up … Kennett, MO

Favorite Fall Memory … Trompin’ cotton in the cotton trailer. Back then we didn’t have a modulator so my daddy would pick the cotton into the trailer and we’d be back there trompin’ it to pack it down.

Megan Mullins

Grew up … I grew up in Columbia City, Indiana, a small town west of Fort Wayne.  We lived on a farm, had chickens, ducks, a goat, cows, horses, and of course dogs and cats.  Our house was about five miles out of "town" which consisted of a truck stop and Wal Mart.

Favorite Fall Memory … I grew up doing shows with my family, and there were always the fall festivals that we would go and play. One in particular we'd have to dress up in period clothing, because it was an old time festival, and I always got really excited because they had all these different arts and crafts, great food, and fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo contests. I actually picked up a banjo for the first time walking on stage to compete because they gave you $20 just for competing.

Charlie Louvin

Grew up … on Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama

Favorite Fall Memory … when papa let us make homemade ice cream.

Elizabeth Cook

Grew up … Wildwood, Florida where fall was mainly the time when school started as opposed to a time for much of a weather change.  

Favorite Fall Memory … My favorite single fall memory is my first date with my husband, Tim Carroll.  We went to the state fair and shared a final lemonade of the season. It was very simple and romantic. Fall will always remind me of the early days in our special relationship. 

Ray Scott

Grew up … in a small town in North Carolina, called Semora (near the Virginia state line)

Favorite Fall Memory … My favorite memory of the fall season growing up was of going to the state fair In Raleigh for the first time in the 9th grade. I was with my first love. There was a cool breeze blowing that night, and she had on a sweater. Funny how you remember things like that. My old friend, Dewayne's parents took us in their old Ford Thunderbird.

Trent Willmon

Grew up … in Afton, Texas, - population, oh, about 10 people.  But, it was a great place to grow up and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Favorite Fall Memory … Believe it or not, it was returning to school each fall.  During the summer, we worked on our ranch and I didn’t have any contact with other kids my age.  Going back to school was fun for me.

Hal Ketchum

Grew up …  upstate New York 

Fall Favorites …  I most look forward to cuddling up with my little girls as the weather gets cooler and writing songs, and planning for the year ahead. 

T. Bubba Bechtol

Grew up … On the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Favorite Fall Memory … My brother coming home from Viet Nam after we were told he was MIA. He just showed up on the front porch one fine fall day in 1969 with a hand full of colored leaves that he had picked up on the way up to the house. I’ll never forget it.

Jimmy C. Newman

Grew up … High Point, Louisiana (the big Mamou as we called it)

Favorite Fall Memory … My first tour one month after becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1956 with Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, and George Jones among others.

Joni Harms

Grew up … Canby, Oregon

Favorite Fall Memory … I have many special memories of fall, but one of my most favorite is the apple cider making we do each year. We have an old cider press that is at least 50 years old. We get a bunch of friends and family together and pick apples from our orchard. Then kind of like the old way of making ice cream we pop the apples in and grind out the beautiful apple juice. Nothing tastes better than that wonderful nectar right off the press. We then can it and enjoy it all year long.