This is a Heath Post special report. I just learned, when the great "I Love" came up on my Yahoo! Music Class Reunion 1974 station, that Tom T. Hall hails from Olive Hill, in eastern Kentucky. I've been through Olive Hill a number of times, as it's on U.S. 60 and I used to drive all kinds of crazy routes to visit my folks in Draffenville when I was a bachelor living in Washington, D.C. Somehow, I either missed or simply disregarded the signs.
... Hall is the son of a bricklaying minister, who gave his child a guitar at the age of eight. He had already begun to write poetry, so it was a natural progression for him to begin writing songs. Hall began learning music and performing techniques from a local musician called Clayton Delaney. At the age of 11, his mother died. Four years later, his father was shot in a hunting accident, which prevented him from working. In order to support himself and his father, Hall quit school and took a job in a local garment factory. While he was working in the factory, he formed his first band, the Kentucky Travelers. ...
Pretty good stuff at the end here about art and craft.
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