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OKAY, BLUESAGEWOMAN!

HERE'S YOUR FIRST LOVE!

Don Williams was born in Floydada, Texas.
His first payment for singing was in the form of an alarm clock he won in a talent contest in 1953 in Portland, near Corpus.

Folks, I grew up listening to this guy.
He instilled in me my love of country music.

OK, I owe you a story about growing tomatoes upside-down.

For a short period of time I lived near Ashland, TN, picking tomatoes all day long on a 4 acre plot. When the job was done I moved back to my home state of Missouri and dropped in to visit my little brother. He was living in a small cabin in the woods.

Upon arriving to his house I was amazed to see he had tomatoes growing from the bottoms of buckets he had hung under the eaves around his cabin. The tomato plants were growing out of 1 inch holes he had drilled out of the bottom of the bucket.

He had threaded the plants through the holes, secured the plant with pieces of moss, and filled the buckets with dirt, then mulched the top. He hung the buckets by the bails up high. The leaves merely turned themselves right-side up to catch the sun.

Fascinated with his idea, the next year I planted my tomato plant upside-down and hung it outside my kitchen window, next to a planter full of lettuce. I literally didn't have to leave my kitchen to pick a fresh salad.

The advantages of upside-down tomatoes are several. Deer, and other animals can't reach them easily. Most insects won't climb up onto the roof to jump into the bucket. Watering and fertilizing was minimal, no need to stake and most importantly, NO WEEDING.

Given the choice between the hot work of picking tomatoes in the field, or picking them off the house, I choose the later. I plant my tomatoes in a bucket, through the hole in the bucket, and will always use a bucket.

WEll, now you have gone and done it...Don Williams is my all time favorite country singer...no one else has a voice like him....smooth, deep, dreamy...and he seems like just a quiet, sweet man...I think he has been nicknamed, 'The Gentle Giant'

When we were living near Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, Don Williams held at concert at the Cumberland County Arena...I would have loved to have gone, but my husband had not been in the military all that long, and we had a mortgage, and two small boys, and even just one ticket for me to go to the Don Williams concert, would have been too frivolous, when one is trying to care for children...

So I just had to content myself, with listeing to my Don Williams 'records'(yep, the big vinyl jobs)....this was in the late 70s....

But the next day, I read a review of the show...it was a glowing report, sayint that it was SRO, and that the whole crowd was mesmerized by Don Williams...

At the end of the show, Don Williams sang 'Amanda', which he made famous, before Waylon Jennings rerecorded it...the newspaper report, said that the audience was swaying, and at the end of the song, a very enthusiastic fan hollered out, "Eat your heart out, Waylon"(not meaning to demean Waylon here, but 'Amanda' is Don Williams song)

My favorite Don Williams song is one that seems to be hard to get, and one that I do not really remember being played on the radio much...still its my favorite one...its 'Gypsy Woman'

Kudos to you COB1, for bringing Don Williams to this thread, and providing his music...You have made one Freeper, exceedingly happy today...