Little did Nashville songwriter Hillary Lindsey know taking part as a youth in her Wilkes County, Ga., 4-H club that one day she would be helping 4-H clubs nationwide.

The Grammy Award-winning daughter of Ricky and Kathy Lindsey, of Washington, Ga., is helping promote a new compilation CD titled Clover Country: Songs From Famous 4-H Alumni, and she wrote The Clown exclusively for the album.

Two other Georgians -- Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland), of Douglas in Coffee County, and Luke Bryan, of Leesburg in Lee County -- also contributed songs to the CD. Ms. Nettles offered Baby Girl, and Mr. Bryan gave We Rode in Trucks.

Lindsey Fodor, of the Georgia 4-H organization in Athens, says Georgia 4-H has purchased 2,040 of the CDs to be sold through the state office

Donald T. Floyd Jr., the president and CEO of the National 4-H Council, has said of the new CD:

"We at National 4-H Council are very excited to share this first-ever compilation of hits from famous 4-H alumni with the nation.

Not only does it showcase the benefits of participation in the 4-H Youth Development Program through our talented 4-H alumni, it raises much-needed support for 4-H."

The CD was created in cooperation with EMI Music (Capitol Records) with help from other 4-H alumni, including Faith Hill, Johnny Cash, Reba McEntire, Alabama andDolly Parton.

For information on the CD, contact the Georgia 4-H club at (706) 542-7832 or georgia4h.org. CDs are $9.99, plus tax and shipping.

It also is available through individual county 4-H clubs.

You can also order it online at 4hmall.org.

SPEAKING OF LUKE BRYAN: The likeable entertainer, who attended Georgia Southern University, and his wife, Caroline, had a hit production of their own with the birth of their first child, Thomas Boyer "Bo" Bryan, on March 18 in Nashville. The couple married in 2006.

SANCKEN SHOW WINNERS SOUGHT: Bill Baab, the outdoors guru and writer for The Augusta Chronicle , is looking for any past winners or participants in the Sancken Dairy Talent Show held for many years in the 1950s and '60s in the Miller Theater.

One past winner, Larry Jon Wilson, went on to international fame.

You can write to Mr. Baab at riverswamper@comcast.net or in care of The Augusta Chronicle , 725 Broad St., Augusta, GA 30901.

NOT BUDDY HOLLY'S GRANDSON: I got an e-mail recently from reader Pat Laws, who had asked Kenny Vaughan, guitar player for Marty Stuart, at the recent Imperial Theatre performance whether he intentionally tried to look like Buddy Holly.

Mr. Vaughan reportedly replied that Mr. Holly was his grandfather. My reader, however, found an article saying Mr. Holly had no children and asked me, "Could this have been something swept under the rug? Can you shed any light on this question?"

I turned to the best possible source: William Kerns, the entertainment editor of The Augusta Chronicle 's sister newspaper the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal . Lubbock is Holly's hometown and where he is buried.

Mr. Kerns kindly wrote back, "The article is correct in saying that Maria Elena, Buddy's bride of less than a year, had been pregnant, but miscarried and lost the baby soon afterward. Buddy Holly had no living children ... thus no grandkids, obviously. The musician's comment does strike me as quite tacky ... unless he thought everyone was in on his joke."

Fans of Holly can find an amazing amount of great stuff about him at the Avalanche-Journal 's site, buddyhollyarchives.com.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Finally, happy 74th birthday (March 22) to the great organist Leon Austin, childhood friend of James Brown, who himself entertained Augustans for years with his band, Leon Austin & The Buicks, and with his Ninth Street nightclub, Leon's DeSoto Club.

You still can wish him well at leonaustin.tributeforyou.com.

Don Rhodes has written about country music for 37 years. He can be reached at (706) 823-3214 or at don.rhodes@morris.com.