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Jimmy Fortune

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  Saturday December 9th Millie and I have been fortunate in that we’ve seen live performances by pretty near every living entertainer that we’ve had a desire to see. Some like Gene Watson and we’ve seen multiple times. At times it seemed like we could never connect with an entertainer when he/she was in our area. Most of the time this was because we were traveling somewhere else at the time. One of the great performers that we had never been able to align our schedules with was Jimmy Fortune. You may know him from his twenty years with the Statler Brothers or his twenty years since then as a solo artist.  Jimmy Fortune   Some months back I checked his website and saw that he would be performing in Liberty North Carolina in December. We hadn’t made departure plans for our winter Florida trip yet, so I decided to book tickets. Even at that early stage the venue was almost sold out, there were a few seats in the rear of the theater and a few in the balcony. Millie and I had been discussin