This past week, I caught up with country music icon John Berry, who is on his 29th annual Christmas tour. While we were having a great breakfast that included JB, his wife Robin, manager Brian Smith, and a couple of the band guys, I couldn't help but think that there are few, if any, recording artists who have overcome as much as he has. At the age of 21, while riding his motorcycle, Berry was hit by a car, breaking both legs and his left hip. He had just lost his mother earlier that year. Doctors were afraid that he might not walk again, and add to that, a brain tumor in 1994 when his first #1 hit "Your Love Amazes Me" topped the charts, to beating throat cancer. This episode of the SMR is my conversation with JB on his tour bus in 2018, just before he was diagnosed. As always, it's a deep dive into the songs and stories of one of the great voices in music and a man whose faith moves him forward matter what.
