Alice Randall Biography
Alice Randall is an American author, composer, producer, and lecturer. She is well recognized for her contributions to country music, as well as her novel and New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone.
Alice Randall Age
Alice was born Mari-Alice Randall on 4 May 1959, in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. She is 64 years old as of May 2023.
Alice Randall Education
She studied English and American literature at Harvard University, where she graduated with honors.
Alice Randall Married- Husband
Randall has been married twice, first to Avon Nyanza Williams III, son of Avon N. Williams and then David Ewing.
Alice Randall Career
In 1983, on her second night in Nashville, Steve Earle spotted Alice Randall at the Bluebird Cafe. Earle began teaching Randall how to write country songs that evening. Randall created her own music production firm, Midsummer Music, in Nashville after beginning her career in country music with Steve Earle as a mentor. Randall is the first African-American woman to write a number-one country song. In 1994, country artist Trisha Yearwood released the track “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)”. Over 20 of her songs have been recorded, including multiple top 10 and top 40 hits, and many of them have been performed by Trisha Yearwood and Mark O’Connor. She also contributed to Johnny Cash’s song “The Chicken in Black,” which spent twelve weeks on Billboard’s US Hot Country Songs chart.Randall wrote the video of the year, “Is There Life Out There” by Reba McEntire, which won the 1992 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Randall and Caroline Randall Williams created the cookbook to promote healthy living in their own life and across the African American community by eliminating fats and sugars while paying tribute to traditional soul food. In February 2016, the book won the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Literature (Instructional). Alice Randall, Carter, and Courtney Little co-wrote My Country Roots in 2006. She published this nonfiction piece in Nashville through Naked Ink. In 1994, Randall developed and produced the pilot for CBS’s television movie XXX’s and OOO’s, which was about four ex-wives of country music singers. Allan Arkush directed the one-hour and fifty-minute film, which John Wilder co-wrote.
Alice Randall Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Alice Randall Books
The Wind Done Gone (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001)
Pushkin and the Queen of Spades (2004)
Rebel Yell (2009)
Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel (2012)
The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess (2013)
Black Bottom Saints (2020)
Alice Randall Songs
The Ballad of Sally Anne
Big Dream
Blinded By Stars
Get the Hell Out of Dodge
Girls Ride Horses Too
I’ll Cry for Yours (Will You Cry for Mine)
Many Mansions
Reckless Night – The Forester Sisters
Small Towns (Are Smaller for Girls)
Solitary Hero
The Resurrection
Went for a Ride
Who’s Minding the Garden – Glen Campbell
XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl