Fall 1967: Joined the Marching Salukis where I met some musicians and played in a band called Heavywater D2O and continued in school non-stop through Sum '68.

Fall 1968: Took a 4 month break. Joined a USO Troop and toured Europe for 4 months playing bass. (They didn't need a sax so I auditioned on electric bass and got the gig.)

Jan. 1969 Back to school through the Fall of 1970.

January of 1970. Quit school to play music full time in Chicago with Big Muddy. Our band played a bunch of great gigs throughout the mid-west from Minn./St. Paul to New Orleans at Al Hirt's Club. I met Carol. Got engaged in March 1971.

September 1971: Got married and went back to school at SIU.

April 1972: Left school again to play in Coal Kitchen in Champaign, Ill.

1973: Back to Chicago and Big Muddy. We released an album on the Paramount Label. Did studio work for Curtis Mayfield and others.

1974: "We" got pregnant.... Came back to Cairo where I worked at Pete Thomas Ford-Lincoln-Mercury until August 1981. During that time Peter and Abby were born.

1981: Moved to Jackson, TN. Co-owned and managed a music store 6 months. Sold radio advertising for 19 years! Led a band all that time. Carol and I became active church members at First Presbyterian. She taught Jr. High Sunday School, I taught Sr. Highs. We became ordained in the Chuck Colsen Prison Fellowship Ministry.

November 2000: Moved to Jacksonville, Fl. for a better radio gig. ...played a lot of music while in Florida in a band called Mid-Life Crisis. We loved Jacksonville, but we missed the kids and we knew a grandbaby might be in the works so we moved back to Tennessee after 4 years in Florida.

December 2004 moved back to Jackson, TN to work at my original radio station.

Our kids are grown up.
Peter is in restaurant management currently in Murfreesboro, TN. He and wife, Shelly, are due to give us our second grandbaby on the 4th of July!!

Abby graduated from Lambuth Univ. in Biology. Got married in September of 2004 to her best friend, Jim Peterson. We're crazy about him too. They live in Franklin, TN where she works out of her home for Big Time Toys so she can stay at home with our first grandbaby, Perry Mabel Peterson born in June of '07.