Medicine man, then horse race caller, now Nashville songwriter-recording artist, author Willie Kell pens true story- If anyone should write a book it should be Willie Kell. From bathing in the creek with the frogs back on "Grandmaw's farm" as a child, growing up to sell home-cooked medicine and then becoming a horse race caller at the tracks, on TV and radio, Willie's done it all. In fact after his children taught him to play guitar, he became a Nashville songwriter and recording artist. Willie's life is packed with adventure, and he tells it all in this book.
Willie was the fifth child of an artistic God fearing mother and a handsome horse-trading father, who later became a travelling medicine man. Willie's mother died when he was six; then, he lived on "grandmaw's farm" until she died when he was ten. Willie tells of his childhood years on the farm, reliving the time he stumbled onto the nude lovers at the creek, remembering the sexy hired girl and the big car-theft gang leader who hid upstairs. He tells, how at just 14, he left home, working as a bellhop and desk clerk at a family owned hotel, where he learned about girls, homosexuals, drug addicts and drunks.
After a stint in the army he married a sweetheart,Irene, and soon followed his father's rambling ways, selling "stove-cooked wonder medicine" and buggy horses to the Amish folks. He recalls the $200.00 "Cinderella" horse he and Irene bought, and after driving him around the country roads this remarkable horse wins a big race.
In his time, Willie has met and talked with Prime Ministers, governors, Hollywood movie stars and some of the world's greatest musicians, writers and entertainers. He has hung out with hobos and "rounders", yes he even talked with the "hangman", who was on his way to execute a young man for murder.
He worked with his children and watched them become big in music as songwriters and recording artists, making several TV appearances. Then, he followed their footsteps to become a Nashville published songwriter and recording artist himself.
An absolutely true and incredible story of one man's life, Willie makes readers laugh, cry and wonder how he did it all and live to tell about it.
