So I was sitting at a Waffle House-type 24/7 diner in the Roanoke, Va., area at around 5:15 a.m. last Monday (not a time when I am normally awake) and I noticed an image of the late Conway Twitty (1933-1993) beside Brce Sprinsteen on the jukebox.
Coincidentally, since he is 60 (until Sept. 23), Springsteen is the same age that Twitty was when he abruptly died from a brain aneruism after performing in Branson, Missouri, 17 years ago.
We will quote Twitty and Springsteen on our two respective blogs. Twitty, the one who was a country crooner, got his stage name from the towns of Conway, Ark., and Twitty, Tex. Though he was born in Mississippi, Twitty grew up in Helena, Ark.
Twitty had 55 number one country hits. Some of the songs he is known for include "Hello Darlin" (1970), "You've Never Been This Far Before" (1973) and "Don't Call Him a Cowboy" (1985).
A fan of his work keeps a blog at conwaytwittymusic.blogspot.com (last updated in March of 2010), and he has an official web site at conwaytwitty.com
Here is his quote:
"A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it into music."
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