WEST VIRGINIA and the Star Country Nightclub band Dixie, Western Connection ,

Here I is the band Western Connection , we were 1 pf the best bands around the Bluefield, Beckley , Prin\ceton  area1981- 1985 , we were the house band at Star Country nightclub in Princeton Wva, , me and Brian were recruited to get off the road in 1981 , when management came out to Bluefield wher we were playing  at the Holiday inn lounge  , after a short break in Jan 1981, me and Brian Hill(d1987)went back to these hills and joined , or rather formed Dixie/Western Connection, another steady gig for 4 years, man,..West Virginia was , a wild time,..never forget those days, looking back , learned alot of lifes lessons , found out that those mountais, had a lot of girls plenty of sex. in those hill, down below on stage in Ouray Colo,.1994 

I was all over the country ,in the entertainment biz, what was important....I never got bored.

Time was at a standstill , yet time was going by at a rapid pace, I returned back to Georgia,.in `1995,..Gary Adkins let me stay in his old mobile home, when I got back , I worked with James Dale and terry Hall,., wasnt long before I landed some weekend gigs,., after a few months I bought a dodge diplomat , and made it into a Taxi,.hauling soldiers mostly there was alot of money yet to  be made ,..I rejoined Skipper, playing gigs back in the country and western vein, did a lot of recording at home , I turned a room into a home studio 

as the 90s were going,..

recording alot of music tracks became my creative times



Gary Parmer , Mike Jones and me, started writing originals and recorded an album over at Larry Rose
51 studios , in Phenix city,..we were playing 4 or 5 clubs and were getting some musical notice around the area, with 4 or 5 good tunes on the album,., we were a really good band with cetain arrangements,..we were some funky pickers

 

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