AN UNFORESEEN GOODBYE: Nothing could have braced the audience for what came next. When the lights softened over Fort Payne, Alabama, the crowd fell into a hush so deep it felt sacred. Randy Owen stood there alone — a single figure holding decades of memories, losses, and love. At seventy-five, his steps were gentler, his posture marked by time, his voice worn with experience. Yet the moment he sang “Angels Among Us,” the years vanished. In that fragile, trembling stillness, the world paused — and every heart understood this was more than a song.
Introduction: The familiar melody drifted into the night not as a performance, but as a quiet prayer. Each note carried…