Jane Rye Morrison
Jane Rye Morrison, 66, is a native Tennessean who grew up in Houston County, near Erin, Tennessee. She and her husband, Roy, will celebrate 48 years of marriage this December. They have two children and three grandsons, who call Jane “Hi, Doll,” which they picked up from her typical greeting for her first grandson. 

Jane works part-time as a receptionist for a heating and a/c company. Her spare time is amply filled with quilting, walking, singing in the Salem United Methodist Church Choir, collecting Little Golden Books (of which she has 2,500), and rabble-rousing with the Razzle Dazzle Reds, her chapter of the Red Hat Society.

Jane stumbled upon her Minnie Pearl tribute routine about seven years ago, when she was in charge of entertainment for a church function. “Everyone I called was already busy,” she says. “I told my husband, ‘I believe I could do Minnie Pearl.’” She put together a costume and performed that night to great success. Now she performs once or twice a month. She was recently the opening act for Linda Davis at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, and she even placed 6th overall in a recent Loretta Lynn talent search. But Jane dreams even bigger: “My overall goal is to open for Vince Gill!”