Working with Music Industry Execs
Some of the most powerful people in Music City are names most people do not know. They are an elite group of producers who create the sound and select the studio artists who will work on those projects. These superstar producers of Nashville chose to work with the...
Backing Up the Stars
If you were a fan of any of the big-name stars on this list, then you already know the Cherry Sisters. The most highly booked Nashville studio vocalists in the 1970s and 80s, the Cherry Sisters, Diane Tidwell Vanette, Lisa Silver and Sheri Huffman, created the tight...
First Fruit Tracks
Signed by Monument Records, the Cherry Sisters recorded their debut album, “First Fruit” at Wishbone Productions in the music mecca of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Produced by Clayton Ivy and Terry Woodford, Diane Vanette, Lisa Silver and Sheri Huffman placed their hopes...
The Original Cherry Sisters
80 years before Music City’s Cherry Sisters forever changed the soundtracks of virtually every major recording star, there were real sisters, Addie, Effie, Ella, Lizzie and Jessie, who, following the death of their parents took to the stages of vaudeville in what...
Vanette Helps Emerge Nashville AFTRA
Diane Tidwell Vanette remains a card-carrying SAG-AFTRA union member. Tennessee is what is known as a “Right To Work” state. What that really means is that employers don’t need much of a reason to fire someone. In general, the state has few unions and little...
Chapters…so far!
Through the working titles for the chapters of Cherry Sisters Music City by Diane Vanette you'll get a glimpse into what you'll find in the book set for release later this year. Now – Almost 50 – 50 years of friendship in our 70s Heart Sounds - In the 70s – how we met...
Cherry Sisters’ Biography
Cherry Sisters Music City – A book by Diane Vanette that tells a story of serendipity, synchronicity and song. It is a Music City memoir of three women confronting the highs and lows of the music business during the good ‘ole boys’ era, standing for the common good...
Diane Vanette’s Biography
Diane Vanette, the author of Cherry Sisters Music City, beat her twin brother into the world by a few minutes. And, frankly, never slowed down. Growing up in smaller communities in Pennsylvania, her father, a physician and her mother working as his practice nurse,...
How a Bank Failure Stopped an Album Release
In the heart of Knoxville, visible from the interstate just after you pass the massive campus of the University of Tennessee and just before you reach the downtown center is a tall structure with a giant gold ball at the top of it. It is all the remains of the...
Cherry Sisters Begin
Grammy-nominated songwriter Lisa Silver is a multi-faceted talent whose Nashville career includes work as a studio musician/vocalist and voice-over artist. As a background singer and fiddle player, Lisa has performed on thousands of recordings, radio and television...
