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Doug Davis
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Friday September 14th , 2007

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STORY BEHIND THE SONG

A lot of hit songs were written from actual slices of life and according to Bill Anderson, Charlie Louvin’s 1965 hit, “Think I’ll Go Somewhere And Cry Myself To Sleep,” was one of those tunes!

Bill commented, “I’ve lived every minute of that song. I wrote that in an eight dollar motel room near the airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Every word of that song is true. I lived that song. I don’t live all my songs but I did that one. If I lived them all I’d be 400 years old. I’d write a line and I’d cry awhile and I’d write another line and I’d cry some more. I won’t go into detail about it but it was a pretty emotional night for me.”

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QUESTION: I heard that Hank Williams Jr. is going into the hall of fame. Is that true?

ANSWER: Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and Hank Williams Jr. will be inducted into The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on October 14th.

QUESTION: Do you have any information on a new Emmylou Harris album?

ANSWER: Rhino Records will release a 4 CD edition of “Emmylou Harris Songbird – Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems” on September 24th.

QUESTION: The radio folks were talking about Porter Wagoner going to receive some kind of special award. Do you have any information?

ANSWER: Porter Wagoner will receive the Pioneer Award during the iebaLIVE! Banquet on October 16^th in Nashville, Tennessee.

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QUESTION: My sister talks about an old Jerry Reed record of “You’ve Been Crying Again.” Our music shops don’t have it. Do you have any information?

ANSWER: “You’ve Been Cryin’ Again” was the flipside of Reed’s 1971 # one, “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot.”

QUESTION: My sister in law thinks she may have lived next door to Johnny Lee’s family years ago. This was in Nebraska and the family named Lee had a small boy who sang all the time. Is that possible?

ANSWER: Anything’s possible but that is highly unlikely since Johnny Lee was actually John Lee Ham and was raised in Texas.

QUESTION: Do you know anything about a Johnny Cash record about “Country Trash?” My uncle says he heard just a few times on the radio but nobody else has ever heard of it.

ANSWER: “Country Trash” was a track in the Johnny Cash 1973 “Any Old Wind That Blows” album

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COUNTRY MUSIC’S TOP TUNES IN:

1948---Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956 ---I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

1964 ---I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves

1972 ---Woman (Sensuous Woman) - Don Gibson

1980 ---Lookin’ for Love - Johnny Lee

1988 ---(Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes - Highway 101

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LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS:

DOUG:

I HAVE A GRIPE, I AM 72 AND HAVE BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR MOST OF THEM, I HAVE DONE MY SHARE OF PLAYING IN BARS AND DANCE HALLS AROUND THE COUNTRY. NO I NEVER MADE IT BIG BUT I STILL RESPECT THE BUSINESS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE MAJORITY OF THESE STARS THAT DRESS LIKE TRAMPS. IN MY DAY THE STARS THAT CAME ON STAGE LOOKED THE PART OF A STAR. THESE KIDS TODAY LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF BUMS. MY MUSIC NOW IS GOSPEL AND I HAVE BEEN ORDAINED FOR A FEW YEARS AND LOVE GOSPEL. I WOULD NEVER GO TO A CHURCH WITHOUT BEING DRESSED UP. I LOVE TO PREACH AND DO A LOT OF IT.

I LOVE THE NEWS LETTER AND LOOK FORWARD TO READING IT WHENEVER IT COMES. I PRAY FOR YOU AND HOPE YOU ARE AROUND A LONG TIME.

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Dear Doug:

I hope you won't mind my using your great newsletter to speak to Tandy Rice for a moment and thank him for his kind words about Faron. As most already know I was honored it have spent quality time in the Army with Faron and Gordon Terry while at Fort Jackson. Faron and I kept in touch after our discharge and whenever I got to Nashville and he was in town I usually managed to spend a little time with him reliving old times and sharing some laughs. Tandy, I appreciate the kind things you said about Faron. You had him pegged just right. He was one of the kindest and caring men I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and he was also one of the most generous as you said. One thing I liked about him was that you knew where you stood with him at all times. If he liked you you knew it. He was honest to a fault in that he either liked a person or he didn't. You never had to wonder where you stood with him. He never claimed to be a saint but he was Faron and you could like him or leave him alone. There will never be anyone else like him and it broke my heart when he left us. Tandy I am so happy to see you contributing to Doug's newsletter. I'm sorry you and I have never met but my late nephew, Lynn Shults, always spoke very highly of you. I don't know if you knew Lynn or not but he was active in the recording field for many years and had lots of friends. Pardon me for shooting my mouth off but I wanted to thank you for the kind words about Faron.

Charlie Roberts

Union City, TN

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Doug: I would like to thank Tandy Rice for his story about Faron Young. I saw Faron Young and the Deputies in a package show while I was stationed at F. E. Warren AFB back in 1954 and what a great performance they did of entertaining all of us that evening. Also I would like to thank David McCormack for the story about Ernest Tubb as what a gentleman he was and how I miss him in this day and time. Doug Davis makes these great stories possible in his newsletter and many more which I look forward to reading in every issue. I take my hat off to these great men for all their stories and sharing them with me and Old Hillbilly who lives down here in Oklahoma.

Thanks Again Men and May The GOOD LORD BLESS each of you.

Shorty Moss

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GETTING PAID.

by: Jack Blanchard

Musicians often have a hard time getting paid,especially when they're on the road.If you get a 50% deposit with the contract,
you at least have half of your pay, if the check doesn't bounce.
If you don't get the other half before the first show,
you have a better chance playing the state lottery.
If you give them the music before they give you the money,
they are prone to get buyers remorse,
and decide the cash means more to them than your friendship.
Some money guys have a way of disappearing into thin air,when you go looking for them. I've even checked the toilet tank.Others just get the bouncers to throw you out.I prefer getting stiffed by the disappearing kind.
One dumpy nightclub called The Comic Book in Jacksonville Beach
staged a phony robbery to get out of paying us.They ran around in a false panic,
like a chicken with its hat off.(Thanks to Misty for that line.)
They showed us the empty safe with the door wide open,
and promised to meet us the next afternoon with the money.
We waited, we called, and waited some more.We went home wanting to stomp a bunny.
The next time we saw these scumbags,
they walked into an Orlando club where we were playing,
sat in the back row, and laughed about not paying us.
I couldn't kill them. Too many witnesses.
Up in the Midwest corn country,we were booked into a small county fair.
There were no dressing rooms on the fairgrounds,
and they had a room across the street for us to change,in a small Mom and Pop Motel.They said we should relax and when the fiddle contest was over,
they'd send somebody to get us.They came for us twenty minutes later than the contracted starting time.
When we arrived, they said the fiddle contest ran overtime,
and seeing that we were not there exactly at the assigned 7PM,
they felt they were entitled to a discount.They suggested 50%.
Our rough looking band closed in on them,
and we proposed that we get 100% and they get to keep their teeth.
There were many times we didn't get paid,
but I like to talk about the times we did.

It was at the huge Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
On the show with is were Jerry Reed, B. J. Thomas,
The Flying Wallendas (a famous high wire act), and T. G. Sheppard.
I said this to Misty:"If the Wallendas fall just before we go on,
it'll take some of the fun out of our act."
Behind us on stage was a 35 foot high wall of speakers,
and the sound was operated from a tower built for the occasion
in the center of the football field.The lighting and stage crew were first class.
They had spared no expense.
We went on right after the Wallendas,and before Jerry Reed and his band.
During Jerry's show I made a bee line for the office,and got our money.
I had checked out its location beforehand.
A few minutes later T. G. Sheppard came up to us,
and asked us if we knew where the guy with the money was.We didn't.
He had that lost look. I know it because I've worn it a lot.
A number of years later a young man came up to us,
and told us that his father had put on that Citrus Bowl show,
and that we were the only act that got paid.He sort of apologized for his dad,
who apparently had a habit of going underground with the payroll.
He said he didn't know where the old man was.Hadn't heard from him in years.
We had gotten lucky that day, but there are many dozens of times we got the silly end of the stick. Some time I'll tell you about them.

Jack Blanchard

THE JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY MORGAN HOME PAGE:
http://jackandmisty.com

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"Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story" is now available online and in most bookstores. In addition, the University of Illinois Press offers free personalized bookplates by following the "Get Your Personalized Bookplate"

link at http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f07/diekman.html. You will need to order your book separately. If you'd like to publicly share your comments about Faron's biography, here's the location on Amazon.com:

http://tinyurl.com/3dsu2a. We're celebrating publication with a reunion of the Country Deputies on the Midnite Jamboree, Saturday, November 10, 2007, at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville. See http://etrecordshop.com/mj.htm for more info--or to order the book.

FARON YOUNG, TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO: On September 14, 1985, Faron played a show with Cal Smith and Jack Greene at a "little ranch" in Kerrville, Texas.

Faron said, "When you turn off the main highway, you get ten miles down a gravel road to this great huge compound. It was so much money around there, the place actually smelled like a billfold. They had every kind of food conceivable." He said, "They must have had three or four swimming pools, I don't know, but it rained about two inches, so there was one hell of a swimming pool. You ought to have saw it--it got so muddy, but the rain finally did quit. About 20 minutes into my show the electricity knocked the whole ranch out. The generators come on, but they were lighting candles.

But I never saw--like these women wearing $2000 dresses. They had mud all over the bottom of 'em. And the guys with these thousand dollar alligator boots. . . . That was the durndest party I ever saw, it's called the Y O Ranch, out of Kerrville, and the money they take in goes to charity. They had 5000 people at $100 a head. I didn't get paid that much."

LETTERS

Bill Mack says, "Let's hook up for a telephone on-the-air interview! I really want to help on your book! I plan to connect with Robyn, soon."

Response: Thanks, Bill, for interviewing Robyn Young and me on your XM Satellite Radio show on 6 September (which was Robyn's birthday). My brother and sister in South Dakota listened to the show. I hope many of our newsletter readers caught it.

David Allan writes from the UK, "I've just received 'Live Fast Love Hard'

and wanted to congratulate you on a biog that is not only impeccably researched, extremely easy to read but also captures totally the heart and soul of Faron's music. I shall be saying so in the October edition of the UK's Country Music People journal!"

Ray Emmett says, "I finished the book today. I was alright until the last chapter, when I just lost it and cried my heart out again. Good job. See ya in Nov."

Linda Kyle, Ray Emmett's daughter, writes from Colorado, "Look forward to reading this book! Thanks for writing about him, and although I never got to meet Marty - I'd say he and 'The Hag' are both great singers/songwriters that I'd admired about as much as Faron...and look forward to Marty's book as well."

Joni Reed lets us know why her husband, Ernie Reed, won't be at the Deputy

reunion: "Oh, I know we wanted to be there badly! His schedule this fall sort of limits him to being here in Missouri most of the time. We live about

75 miles from Branson now....and he'll be working there most of the week until the end of November--in fact, I go to the show with him every night so I can share the driving.....no time for what would have been a wonderful side trip!"

Ann Prestage writes, "I just finished reading the biography of Faron Young.

You must have gotten most of your information from his ex wife or enemies.

That is the worst book I have ever read about any human being. You had nothing to say except a bare mention of a few good deeds he had done. It was the most depressing book I have ever read. I was a Faron Young fan, but no more. I have all his CDs, but they will be trashed. Thanks for nothing."

Andy Williford says, "I want to tell you on behalf of myself and all of Faron's childhood friends, how much we appreciate the publication of the book about a very outstanding talent. He was very close, up until his death, to all of us. I will tell you a story about the time when Faron came to Dallas to perform at Cowboys. He called me and I picked him up at the hotel ( he almost always flew and his bus was parked behind Cowboys). We sat and talked before he went on stage, just him and I, and during our conversation, he said to me, 'Andy, you know I am going to have to die before I get inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame.' He said that it already has happened to some of his friends. My wife and I was watching the country music awards show some years back and I watched and listened to Travis Tritt make the induction speech. My wife saw big tears in my eyes and she asked why? I said, 'Look at this and what a shame that he is not around to see it.' Willie Nelson, at one time, was trying to get the proper people to look into this miscarriage of honors. Incidentally, I may have told you that D.J. Fontana was in our class."

Juanita Buckley writes from Glendale, Arizona, "I will be moving to Willcox, Arizona, sometime in October 2007. They asked me over a year ago to move my Marty Robbins Exhibit to Willcox. I tried to find a place as the City doesn't think Marty Robbins is anything in Glendale, he not only was born here but put Glendale on the map all over the world. I'm tried of fighting with them to realize what a great man he was, they should be proud that he was born in Glendale. Marty told me I would have a problem and I really thought I could make them see what a great Man he was. Then he died before I could move to Arizona but I kept my promise to him to open an Exhibit for him. I did but I was spending my own money and it caught up to me, I had to sell the building, but I have not given up hope. So I will try again. But this time I will have the City Of Willcox behind me. It will benefit Them as well as The exhibit. So if you come to Arizona I will be in Willcox . . . .

We need to keep Marty out there every day for ever."

Diane Diekman

Washington DC, USA

altruria@verizon.net

Faron Young info: http://ddiekman.tripod.com/id8.html

Newsletter archive: http://ddiekman.tripod.com/blog

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THIS I BELIEVE:

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life (John 3:`16)

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