The Singing Cowboy
http://www.shsu.edu/~stdbks13/george.html
After his discharge in 1975, George enrolled at Southwest Texas State University in
San Marcos under the G.I. Bill. He put up fliers around campus advertising himself as
a lead singer in search of a band. One of his first responses was from the guys who
now make up the Ace In The Hole Band. They hired him as their lead singer and they
started to play gigs.
George's big break came when the band was booked into a club in San Marcos,
The Prairie Rose. The owner was Erv Woolsey, a former executive with MCA Records.
Woolsey booked the band sight unseen, but he was more than impressed when he heard
them play. After that first booking, he asked them back repeatedly, he and George
became good friends. When Woolsey later returned to Nashville and the music business,
he stayed in occasional contact with George.