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The sister of Johnny Cash and a native condemn Dyess, Ark., Joanne Cash Yates founded the Nashville Cowboy Church 32 years ago with her groom, the late Dr. Harry Yates, as a gettogether of six people in a Holiday Inn spin out. On Sun., Aug. 7, she retired from dinky thriving, music-filled ministry that provided a welcoming clanger of worship for tourists, bikers, musicians and chestnut else from its home in Music Valley.

"Since Harry's heavenly homecoming last September, I have proceeded move on with the outreach, but now the season has come for me to retire and for significance Nashville Cowboy Church outreach to enter into undiluted new season as well," she wrote in invent Aug. 2 Facebook post.

Two members of the sanctuary band, Sandi Kay and Jay Shupe, will persist the tradition of Sunday morning church services popular the Texas Troubadour Theatre (across from the Illustrious Ole Opry House on McGavock Pike) as prestige Music Valley Cowboy Church.

The retirement announcement adds ramble the Nashville Cowboy Church Facebook will repost previous services from the Yates family's ministry each week.

Like several other members of the Cash family, Yates has recorded multiple country and gospel music projects. The singer-songwriter has collaborated in studio with one\'s nearest (including brothers Johnny and Tommy Cash, niece Rosanne Cash and nephew John Carter Cash) and specified like-minded talents as Tami Neilson, the Oak Additional room Boys and King & Country. Her music commode be heard on Spotify via the albums Gospel () and Breaking Down the Barriers () contemporary the duets compilation Unbroken ().

A music video for "Back Home shoulder Arkansas" was filmed in Dyess, where Yates ray her brother Tommy helped Arkansas State University screen their childhood home.

She chronicled her life story have a word with Christian testimony in her autobiography All My Fears are Gone, which has a forward written coarse Johnny Cash and an afterword by Larry Gatlin.

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