Maggie Brown

Maggie Brown makes peace with her past (Dec 2004)

If Country Music Television ever collaborates with the Lifetime Network to make a movie-of-the-week, the story of Maggie Brown would be fitting subject matter. The story has everything: a musical child, dysfunctional family, mental illness, broken marriages and, in the end, a triumph of the human spirit culminating in a fine country album. "It'll make you sad, but I wouldn't be who I am without all that," Brown, now 38, explains during a phone interview. By "all that," she is referring to her unusual upbringing that began in the rural outskirts of Ferriday, La., hometown of Jerry Lee Lewis.  ...