i just found this at rickie's site and i loved it. bettye jones is rickie's mother.
''When he was sixteen, Rickies brother, Danny, suffered a motorcycle accident that left him with one leg and partial paralysis. At the time, Rickie lived with an aunt. But she visited her brother in the hospital constantly. Her mother recalls that she would sing in the hospitals elevator shaft. You could hear it all around the hospital, Bettye Jones has said. It was the eeriest sound I think I ever heard. '' read more at http://www.rickieleejones.com/biography.htm wallyK
