by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Seven: There wasn’t a bigger entertainment name on planet earth than Elvis Presley. Imagine Chris’s shock to hear that the “King of Rock and Roll” had heard a song Chris had written and that he wanted to record it! This chapter takes you to Elvis’s Vegas...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Six: Wayne Newton was synonymous with Las Vegas’s reputation for stellar entertainment. As one of Newton’s 5 personal musicians, Chris would spend the next 6 months of his life in “Sin City,” living in the penthouse of the famed Sands Hotel. But how would a...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Five: After securing a job as a banjo player in the Opryland Dixieland Band, Chris not only met the woman who would later become his wife but also fortuitously caught the attention of iconic musical performer Wayne Newton. Newton took a particular interest in...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Four: Chris’s first trip to Nashville had no success, but while in Knoxville on his way back to Abilene to work at a bank, he had an unlikely backstage meeting with a country music legend. That meeting brought him back to Nashville and began opening doors of...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Three: While at college orientation at Abilene Christian, a chance encounter with Lee Paul and Chris Waters would lead to forming the group “Chris, Chris & Lee,” altering the trajectory of Chris’s life, and cementing his desire to write and record music....
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