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Published: June 16, 2023, 9:22 p.m.

Today on the 600th episode of Too Opinionated, Laura Pursell (Daughter of the legendary composer and songwriter, Bill Pursell) chats about the recent Mothers Day tribute and Pre-Father\u2019s Day concert honoring her mother and father.

Appearing on the Hollywood stage of the Hard Rock Cafe, Laura Pursell, was backed by her LA band and string section, performing selections from \u201cLost In Time.\u201d\xa0\xa0Opening for her was Jason Coleman, renowned pianist and grandson of Nashville legend Floyd Kramer.\xa0 \xa0 ABOUT Lost In Time:\xa0Bill Pursell and daughter Laura started this album\xa0in 2019 as a tribute to wife and mother Julie, who spent her final years battling vascular dementia.\xa0Bill wrote\xa0the music and\xa0lyrics to the title track,\u201cLost in Time\u201d, a haunting ode to her\xa0lonely journey. Three tracks were recorded in\xa0Nashville before the pandemic shut\xa0production down. Bill continued writing arrangements. But midway\xa0through the recording, Bill tragically died from Covid. \xa0Honoring her promise to her father, Laura finished the album and it became a tribute to both of her parents.\xa0\xa0Nashville legend Bill Pursell, 2-time Grammy nominee, was one of the A-Team Music Row musicians back in the 60s who helped create \u201cThe Nashville Sound\u201d, recording with Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Chet Atkins, and more. He had a hit record in 1963, \u201cOur Winter Love\u201d. He went back to school at Eastman and earned his doctorate at the age of 70.\xa0
Julie Pursell was an accomplished writer, a front page reporter for the Tennessean, then the Art Editor for \u201cThe Nashville Banner\u201d. A story she wrote about welfare in the 60s earned \xa0a nomination \xa0for the Pulitzer Prize. \xa0Though Bill had the fame, he always said that his wife had the brains. \xa0Julie was at the height of her creative powers when, at the age of 73, she suffered a series of strokes which began a slow and painful road toward vascular dementia, which evolved into Alzheimer\u2019s. This terrible disease robbed her of her charismatic free spirit, her insatiable curiosity, her dignity, and ultimately her will to fight. The family stood helplessly by as they watched her disintegrate physically and mentally, piece by piece. \xa0\xa0Laura says, "I am doing this show in honor of my father, whom I was blessed to perform with for 22 years, and to the memory of the mother I knew, before dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s took her away from us.\u201d \xa0 Want to watch: YouTube Meisterkhan Pod (Please Subscribe) \xa0 \xa0