Gospel music singer Joan Lunn Hicks , who lives in Darlington, S.C., found my column item about the death of gospel star Dottie Rambo on The Augusta Chronicle's Web site and wanted to pass on her thoughts to the Rambo family.

Mrs. Rambo, 74, died of injuries suffered May 12 when her tour bus crashed on Interstate 44 near Mount Vernon, Mo.

Ms. Hicks wrote, "Please let the Rambo family know that Mrs. Dottie Rambo was a great blessing and she will be dearly missed! These (Rambo-composed) songs 'He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need' and one of my all-time favorites 'We Shall Behold Him' are such a blessing!

"Each time I sing these songs I am truly blessed, and those who hear me sing them get a blessing also. Mrs. Rambo was a woman who loved the Lord, and it showed in her music, her songwriting and her energy in singing the songs to the glory of God!"

Among those still in the hospital in Springfield, Mo., from the wreck is Mrs. Rambo's longtime friend and personal manager, Larry Ferguson.

He e-mailed me that Mrs. Rambo had been told before the accident that she would be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in September by actress Carol Channing (whose father was born in Augusta) and was looking forward to attending the induction ceremony in Atlanta.

NOT A LEAD GUITARIST: I always love it when a reader tells me how wrong I am, because it lets me know that I'm not really as smart as I sometimes think, and it proves that my readers are just as smart as, if not smarter than, I am.

Someone who sent me only an e-mail address wrote concerning the May 29 column: "Hey Don, I think in ya 37 years of country music it's rotted your brain. Teddy Gentry of Alabama was NOT the lead guitarist, he was the bass player. Time to retire dude."

Well, there are certainly days when I feel like hanging this column up after doing it for 37 1/2 years, but I'm not ready to cash in just yet. Still, the reader is right: Mr. Gentry was bass guitar player and vocalist for Alabama, not lead guitarist. Good catch.

GOODBYE, JERRY WALLACE: The country music world lost one of its smoothest voices and nicest people with the death of Jerry Wallace, 79, from congestive heart failure May 5 at his home in Victorville, Calif.

He was best known for his hits Primrose Lane, To Get to You and In the Misty Moonlight .

JENNIFER'S NEW CD: The third CD from Sugarland, Love on the Inside , will be released July 22. The lead vocalist for the group, Jennifer Nettles, and Kristian Bush co-wrote all 13 songs on the CD. The first single is All I Want to Do .

SEARS USING BILL'S SONG: Grand Ole Opry star Bill Anderson is very happy with Sears' new TV commercial that features "an old, relatively obscure song of mine" called We Missed You .

Mr. Anderson tells visitors to his Web site, billanderson.com "Kitty Wells had a No. 7 recording of it in the Billboard charts in November of 1962. The song lay dormant until Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, one of the greatest bluegrass groups in the world, recorded it a few years ago. I am told that Doyle's version will be played in the background as this summertime-themed commercial unfolds."

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