The REAL Story of Cornpone? Big Texas Nate was born on an Indian reservation in western Kentucky. There was an old Shaman there who played the blues and when BTN got his first guitar, he would do odd jobs to pay for his lessons. That explains the country blues influence in his playing. The same shaman would also sit around drinking and singing along with Jimmie Rodgers records. When you hear him let out that old yodel, it is harkening back to a time when he was 6 years old. His folks eventually moved him up to a Hemlock, Michigan dairy farm to work and pick that ol'guitar. 'Lowdown' Jeff Schrems story is quite different. He was born in a share cropper's one room country shack in Arkansas. His folks raised him to pick cotton, bail hay and on the weekend, play an old wash-tub bass his great grandpa had made. The family headed north chasing that automotive dream of big-time factory wages, only to be left unemployed and in soup lines for the greater part of the decade. Once Lowdown's father finally did manage to get his way into a Saginaw machine shop, he was fired for stealing car parts to fulfill his dream of owning a brand new Cadillac, which he was planning to build himself. Cornpone was conceived when the two hillbillys met at a Wayne 'The Train' Hancock show. They were both in the front row the whole night and ran into each other right in front of Wayne's Swing Shift van on the way home. One couldn't believe the others story and it almost come to blows. These boys gave up fussin and fightin and got down to some pickin'. They began getting together every night writing and singing songs. What about Mississippi Jon Pone-Potrykus?? Wouldn't ya know that he was in a convenience store(buyin a case of cough medicine) that the boys was robbin' one night and liked their style so much, he joined the band! I know, I know I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't seen it. Ever since they been struttin' around, proud as peacocks with two tails.These boys might be playin' churches, saloons, festivals, coffee houses, hootenannys, hoe downs, flea markets, drag strips or street corners, but they ain't never gonna be played on 'country radio!' Whoo DANG!!!
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