STARS

Photograph by Gary Smurthwaite
The above photograph was taken in December
2001 at the Newcastle Opera House with a man I have admired for many
years – John Prine. I flew all the way from Spain just to see him in
concert. It was worth every peseta. John was on stage for 140 minutes
and spoke to all the people who stayed back to meet him. He chatted
freely, posed for photographs and signed autographs. He even said he had
read about my pending visit on his web site!

Moe Bandy discusses his
song "It's A Cheatin' Situation."

Joe Stampley is very happy
with his award

Larry Gatlin said he had not spoken to
many English radio people
Moe Bandy, Joe Stampley and Larry Gatlin
were photographed backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,
Tennessee, October 1980. This was the year that Moe and Joe Stampley
were voted "Vocal Duo of the Year" by the Country Music Association.

Photograph by Tommy Loftus
With the guitar chief, Chet Atkins, in Middlesbrough, England

Photograph by Ian
Edwards
The two photographs above show guitarist
Chet Atkins at the Dragonara Hotel, Middlesbrough in 1980 and Doug
Dillard in Leeds, 1989. Meeting both stars was a great thrill for me as
I believe that Chet is one of the greatest guitarists ever – and, as for
The Dillards, I have been a fan of them for as long as I can remember.




Good memories of my
visit to Nashville, Tennessee in 1974. Freddie Hart & Porter Wagoner at
the Municipal Auditorium and with Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce and agent Gus
Barba at the Biltmore Hotel on Franklin Road. Photographs are by Shay
Brogan.

With Jerry Reed outside his
office in Music City

Jerry Reed in Nashville,
Tennessee

Photograph by Frank Rogers
Three more photographs of Jerry Reed going
back a few years - 1974 in Nashville and 1982 in Douglasville, Georgia.

Photograph by Tommy Loftus
Country music star Charley Pride and me.
This was taken at the BBC Radio 2 "Country Club" Studios in London.

Rattlesnake Annie McGowan in Scarborough,
North Yorkshire, on November 5, 1982

Photograph by Jay Diamond
Celebrations for the late Carmol Taylor
at a birthday bash
at
his Music Row office in Nashville, Tennessee, September 1982.

Photograph by Jay Diamond
Carmol, Sonny Wright and me in a party
mood after a few drinks - well, certainly Carmol and and I were!

Photography by
Jennifer Diamond
Radio disc jockey Joe Fish, agent and
record producer Jay Diamond, singer Billy Walker and me in Nashville,
Tennessee,
October 1983.

Steve Young in Guisborough,
England 1983

This
photograph was taken at the Acklam Hotel, Newport Road, in
Middlesbrough. It shows Tony Jackson of the Shotgun Duo, Eric White,
Stan Laundon, the other band member of the Shotgun Duo - but we don't
know his name - Sye Maddison, Steve Young and Art Marshall. Bob Allison
is at the very top of the photograph and Peter John Bergg, ex-Radio Tees
country disc jockey, is at the bottom.


Photographs by Fred Smurthwaite
Connie Smith in
Glasgow, Scotland, in February 1973. Connie was support act to Faron
Young at Green's Playhouse. It was so cold in
Scotland at this time of the year perhaps this was the main reason
Connie was wearing that fur coat in the top photograph - but she did
remove it later!

With Buck Owens in Liverpool, 1966. Buck is reading a
copy of the magazine "Opry" which later changed its name to "Country
Music People." Notice Loretta Lynn on the back cover! The gentleman in
the centre of the photograph is Buck Owens
fan, John Gregory from Tyneside.

Another photograph taken with Buck Owens in
Liverpool. I am on the extreme right but I have no idea who the
other gentleman are, do you?

Cajun artist Dewey Balfa taken in Eunice,
Louisiana, September 1990.

Singer/songwriter,
John Riggs, down by the Cumberland River in Nashville, September 1991

Carl Perkins and me in London, 1967

With Johnny Cash in London, 1967

Former Leyton Orient footballer, Joe
Elwood, with Charles Benson, editor of the magazine Country & Western
Roundabout, country star Eddy Arnold, me, journalist John Stoten and
country music fan Pauline Bennet in London 1966.
The quality of
some of the photographs on this page is not up to our usual standard for
which we apologise.
Some do date back to the 1960's
so I am sure we are forgiven.

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