“She Never Gave Up on Him.” When the world saw a convict, Flossie Mae saw her son. She prayed through every mistake, waited through every silence — and when Merle finally sang “Mama Tried,” it wasn’t just a song. It was his way of saying thank you to the woman who saved his soul. ❤️

There are songs that entertain, and then there are songs that confess. “Mama Tried” is the latter — a man’s honest reckoning with his past, wrapped in the gentle ache…