Did Reba ever sing with Dottie Rambo who sang Gospel songs?

Answer 1

The answer is absolutely yes. Reba sang with her mom and dad for about 10 years or so in their heyday, then went out on her own. Reba Rambo McGuire is the daughter of the late gospel music legend, Dottie Rambo. Dottie started writing songs when she was three years old on a creek bank in Kentucky where she was born. Dottie came from a large family, but very poor in those days.

Dottie Rambo started listening to the Grand Ole Opry and began to sing county music on the local radio station when she was about 10 years old. Shortly after this time, she became a born-again Christian and embraced the Christian message and started to write and sing gospel music. Her dad hated that she no longer sang regular country music and issued her an ultimatum at only 12 years old. Either stop singing gospel music or leave home. That is exactly what happened. At only 12 years old, Dottie Rambo was forced to leave home. With her mother's blessing in leaving her off at the Greyhound Bus on the way for a revival meeting in Evansville, Indiana, where she was scheduled to sing, her mother told Dottie: "I'm going to worry God to death over you."

Four years later, at age 16, Dottie met Buck Rambo, who came to know the Lord in one of the revivals where Dottie sang. Then about two years after that, Reba was born. To make a long story short that should become a feature-length movie, Reba started singing with her parents at about 14 years old and she sang with them in the heyday of their career for about 10 years until she went on to develop a cutting-edge solo career in contemporary Christian Music. Dottie became the legendary writer of some 2,500 songs which have been recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, who was a close personal friend of Dottie's, to Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, and almost every gospel singer on the planet. She garnered a Grammy for her album, "The Soul of Me" in 1968, backed up by an all black choir and the KKK threatened to kill her. Her influence in Christian music and even in pop music has been tremendous. Reba has had a great deal of influence early on with her stellar solo career, but she has never been given the credit that she probably deserved for being probably the chief female forerunner of the more modern music that came to be called contemporary Christian.

Sadly, Dottie Rambo was killed in a bus accident on Mother's Day 2008 on her way to perform with some golden girls of gospel, Lulu Roman and Naomi Seego. She is tremendously missed. Her daughter, Reba, pastors a church in Nashville called the River at Music City, along with her husband of 25 years, Dony McGuire.