Article: The Judds wrap up `The Sweetest Gift' for Mother's Day

The elegaic melody of "The Sweetest Gift" weaves a tapestry of humble memories for the Judds. The gentle 1936 bluegrass ballad about a mother who visits her son in prison was the first song the mother-daughter duo learned together.

With a chorus that promises, "It was a halo, sent down from heaven - the sweetest gift, a mother's smile," the song still carries such internal emotional power that it is not clear if the Judds will sing it Sunday when they will appear with Dolly Parton and Alabama in the Marlboro Country Music Concert at the Rosemont Horizon.

Sunday is Mother's Day.

"We learned that song to give to my mother for a Mother's Day present," said Naomi Judd in a recent ...

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