A then-14-year-old Rimes was at a Santa Monica restaurant when songwriter Diane Warren approached her and asked if she would be interested in cutting a song she had just written, “How Do I Live”.

No one thinks of “Con Air” as an Alabama movie. Why not? Yes, there are widely beloved, bonafide Oscar-winners like “Forrest Gump,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Selma,” you might anoint as cream of ...