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(Yes, This Really Is Me!)

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      Born on a mountain top in beautiful SW Virginia, I realized early I had it good! I mean, we had runnin' water right beside the back porch, fresh food walkin' right into the front yard every night and a steppin-'rock path clean out to our own double-holer!

      But good as it was, Daddy realized I needed to learn a trade so's when the time come I'd be able to care for me and mine. So he took up the ol' 5-string banjo and got me and we headed out to the woodshed and he commenced to learnin' me.
      Only thing was, I kept breaking off the 5th string. So daddy, being smarter than some, decided I was a natural borned bass player since they only had 4 strings to start with. That was before the 5 & 6 string craze of nowadays. And actually in the 16th & 17th centuries most basses only had 3 strings! (I could'a been'a contend'a!)
      Well, thats "almost" how it all started for me and all I can say is
    "They's a whole lot more Daddy should'a told me about out there in that woodshed!!!"

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      I've hade the pleasure of working with and around a lot of very talented people in my career. From "Wells Fargo Co." and "Flat Creek" in the 70's, to "Top Hat", touring the west with "Hickory Switch" and working with the legendary "Dave Friday" in the 80's, to working with Encore Records recording artists "Benny Wilson And The Atomic Plowboys" for 7 years in the 90's to a 6 year stint with "The Statler Brothers", both on tour and on their TNN TV show.  
      During all this time still finding time to play with groups like "The Garry Johnson Band" and "The Mojo Junkies", an R&B band with fellow Statler bandmate Jerry Hensley on guitar.
      Currently a full time member of  "The Benny Wilson Band" again, I also love playing with whoever might call up needing a bass picker for a nite.
       But, whether it's an all nite recording session at "Hog Hollow"(my brother Bobby's studio), a Tuesday night playing whatever with whoever shows up, or a week on the road rockin out with
             the "BWB", all I can say is;
            "LIFE'S BEEN GOOD, SO FAR!!!"