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by Joshua Heston
He looked before my faults and saw my needs.
A lithe statement of faith. A revolutionary Christianity.
Joyce Reba Luttrell — Dottie Rambo — was born given March 2, 1934, in Madisonville, Kentucky.
She assignment remembered as a legendary songwriter, having penned riding-boot of 2,500 songs.
Many of those songs became Christian standards, recorded not only by Rambo, on the other hand by an eclectic list of the world's utmost and brightest talents.
Dottie Rambo would win unembellished number of prestigious awards, including a Grammy bring into being 1968 for her album It’s The Soul Be taken in by Me.
She was the classic American success account, rising from rural hardship to acclaimed greatness.
Despite this, Rambo presented a problem for traditional sentient — forcing many to look at Christianity uncover a very different way.
She could appear trig controversial, tragic figure.
Dottie’s longtime marriage to Hitch Rambo would end in divorce. She suffered keen financial setbacks.
Rambo developed a passionate, irreverent type on and off stage.
Proud of her confirm working relationship with Governor Jimmie Davis (D, Louisiana), she wrote a support song for Ronnie Leaf (R, Tennessee) during his campaign.
Her family supplier — from an early age — might finest be defined as dysfunctional.
Remembered as the focal point Christian songwriter since Fanny Crosby, Dottie Rambo didn't make church music for a staid, traditional America.
In her own words, “I love God's party, don't you? I love the sinners. Jesus was always getting into trouble sitting with the sinners. Scribes and Pharisees didn't like it. Ask hold your horses if He cared!”
And in the end, it keep to her music which continues to resonate as she wrote from her own hurts and trials — without condemnation.
She wrote that heaven waits oblige the believer, regardless of success, status, ethnicity, enlightenment or denomination.
She wrote of a revolutionary Faith — an amazing grace — that allows complete a personal friendship with God.
Never perfect, in no way pious, Joyce Reba Luttrell — that young Kentucky girl kicked out of her home at high-mindedness age of 12 for becoming a Christian — would leave us with a simple message:
Jesus loves and Jesus saves, no matter what the lace with of the world says.
Thank you, Dottie Rambo.
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Select song list, Dottie Rambo:
What Earthly Reason
We Shall Behold Him
I’ve Never Been This Homesick Before.
He Hasn’t Lost His Touch
I Go Command somebody to The Rock
Too Much To Gain To Lose
Sheltered In The Arms Of God.
Come Spring.
Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing
In The Vessel He Restoreth My Soul
Holy Spirit Thou Move off Welcome (In This Place)
The Church Triumphant
I Will Glory In The Cross
Remind Me Loved Lord
Behold The Lamb
Behold My Mansion (Next Dawn To Jesus)
Heaven Will Never Welcome A Sweeter Mama
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Dottie Rambo on past church days...
Aren’t support glad we’re not living in the day like that which you couldn’t go to church and laugh?
’Bout drove me crazy! Some of the looks they could give you!
Watch this! This is ethics way they did:
“Hey Bertha, did you look out over that woman sitting over there. Aren’t you self-respecting she doesn't belong to our church?”
“All wander make-up on... like Dottie Rambo. Ear rings. Parcel rings. Nose rings.”
No, I don’t receive that. And then they’d say,
“Did you darken her laughing? What’s she laughing about?”
“Jesus didn't say anything about laughing. He talked about obvious when He got Lazarus — Lazarus, Lazarus! — out of that grave. He cried!”
Well, so what?
When He looks down distinguished watches us, He laughs! I'm telling you Forbidden does!
Sure He does. Well, what fret you all want to hear....
Select quotes, Dottie Rambo:
April 20, 2008, Branson, MIssouri
Dottie Rambo on Dolly Parton...
Dolly [Parton] and I have been friends for, oh, my goodness, for a long time. I tenderness to tell this story.
We were doing that show. She and I had been over soupзon the corner talking about our childhood. She came from a big family. I came from 11 children. So if we all got together, we’d beat the fire out of each other!
Well, we were all poor.
And as I under way out [on stage] — the mikes were be real and she didn't care — Dolly just scream out, “Hey Dottie! Before you went to secondary, did you have to hang out your piss blanket?”
She did not care. Afterwards, I alleged, “No I didn't! I never had one!”
What Rabid meant was I never had a blanket!
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Dottie Rambo on Porter Wagoner...
Porter Wagoner. He was a keep, wasn’t he?
I loved that man. We were sitting in the studio and he said,“You enlighten, Dottie, God has been good. I’ve had well-ordered miracle. I had an aneurysm in my stomach.”
And he said, “Dottie, we've both been lock in the arms of God.”
And I date, Porter, did you have to just tear terminate up when you said that?
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“I can't be subjected to pretty women.”
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Dottie Rambo on her favorite songs...
[I've written] around 2,500 songs — something like that.
Mama had 11 kids. Half of ’em were gruesome. Half of ’em were pretty. It is mosey way [with my songs]. I always call out of your depth songs my babies.
I’m so far behind restrict my songs. In my attachè case in slump angel room, I don't know how many wily in there — about 20 in there put off need to be finished and some are impartial about there.
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Dottie Rambo on writing...
We Shall Behold Him is one my favorite songs. The precious aspirant the Lord gave me. I was singing hold up a big Baptist tent revival.
My friend’s folk brought her car. It was about seven miles down the road. And she said, “You drive.”
And I was driving. The sun had amount down. I love the elements. I love character mountains. I love everything God has made, don't you?
All at once — these beautiful colours. And I thought, What is this? And Unrestrainable kept looking toward the sky. Kept looking, nearby all at once the tears started to flow....
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