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I was born in Saltville, Virginia, not much more than a wide place in the road and home for only about 1,600 people. My father was one of those colorful characters you hear about… a magician, ventriloquist, singer and dancer, even performed on Vaudeville. He was known to have tipped the bottle perhaps a little too often too! Mom was the rock… good, kind and understanding with a heart of gold. She believed angels walked the earth and I believe SHE was one of them! She always told me there was some special reason I was put hear on earth. You know what I’m gonna say it is, don’t ya’? Yep, MUSIC! I started singing somewhere around the age of six. I remember riding in that old Ford Falcon, playing in the back seat with Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and George Jones playing on the radio, Country music was always on the radio and in my blood. The plant my dad worked at shut down and at eleven years old the family moved to Georgia. It was in those Georgia churches, that I fi...