A tribute to country-music great Mother Maybelle Carter. Host Kris Kristofferson is joined by Lynn Anderson, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Larry Gatlin, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Linda Rondstadt.
Special: It's ladies' night at the Grand Ole Opry as Johnny is joined by Emmylou Harris, Minnie Pearl, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Misty Rowe ("Hee Haw") and - in "I'm Going to Be a Country Girl Again" - a chorus of 28 female singers including Jeannie C. Riley, Wilma Lee Cooper, Helen Cornelius, Skeeter Davis.