CD and I think it's one of L. David Lewis' finest performances. This month in MUSIC ROW Robert K. Oermann had this to say about it.
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BEHIND THE 8 BALL AGAIN
is it still a hit?
I brought this song to Nashville with me when I moved here in 1987, having written it a year prior to that in sunny Clearwater, Fla. It got attention there and got attention here the minute I set foot on MUZAK ROW with it.
The original inspiration came from reading Tom T. Hall's book "Story Tellers Nashville" about the good old days on Lower Broad, where writers like Willie, Kris, Roger etc . hung out and carried on. The title was something my father used to say a lot as a warning to my brother and me. "Don't get behind the 8 ball boys" Seeing that no one in family hung out in pool rooms, it must of resonated with me.
When I first met Joe Diffie and he sang a guitar vocal demo of it for me...I knew it really had potential. So did a lot of other people, including Cowboy Jack Clement. When I met Johnny Slate in 1988 he immediatly was interested in the song and the singer. This of course led to me introducing him to Joe Diffie. And the rest is history...
Joe was going to record it on his first record, then his second, then it was "A LOCK" for his third album. Why he didn't is one of the unsolved mysteries of MUZAK ROW. Several years ago a fine singer named Ron Williams (Leona's son) went browsing through the API song catalog and found it. He liked it alot. Johnny Slate did record it on him,but the album is sitting on a shelf somewhere. Well in 1996 I recorded it on my "Allow Me To Demonstrate"Not quite....In 1991 at my #1 party for If The Devil Danced,the late Lynn Shults of Billboard magazine asked me this question. "Danny Morrison told me Joe was discovered singin' a song you wrote called 8 Ball?"
CD and I think it's one of L. David Lewis' finest
performances. This month in MUSIC ROW Robert K. Oermann had this to say
about it.
MARCH 2000
DISCLAIMER by Robt. K. Oermann
SO AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IS IT A HIT OR A MISS ?
This recording done in 1996 is on my
ALLOW ME TO DEMONSTRATE CD
SLOW FORWARD TO AUGUST 2004
Ron Williams (a very fine singer btw and a genuine nice guy) has put it on his Debut Album
17 Years After I Wrote It
HERE'S A SAMPLE OF IT
YOU CAN ORDER IT AT
or
Its A "Natural Thing"
It also has another song I wrote
Click It And Listen
Rons First Single Is A Real Strong Ballad called
"I'm Tired Of Being Something That Means Nothing To You"
Ask Your Local Station To Play It!