Chasing Fireflies (ePub)

They say there is a book in everybody. Well, if that's true, it's taken me nearly thirty years to write mine!My story tells of a visit I made to the United States in 1974 when two friends and I decided to head down to Nashville, Tennessee to attend a six-day music festival.At the time I was employed by BBC local radio in the north east of England and every Sunday I presented a country music programme called "Country Time." It seemed, at this time, most of my colleagues who presented similar programmes within the local radio network had already been to Nashville - and I was probably the only one who had not.I was about to rectify this, a trip of a lifetime for me. Until now I had only ever been abroad once - to Majorca. For my two travel companions, it was their first overseas holiday.This is the story of those two weeks. It is not all about music and Nashville. It is about our experiences, thoughts, memories and the fun we had on the way to Tennessee - via New York, Newark and Virginia and on our way back home travelling through Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania.How nice it was, too, to meet people such as Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash - and a relatively unknown guitar player called Jerry Reed who wrote songs and played guitar for Elvis Presley and later went on to make several hit movies with Burt Reynolds and Gene Hackman.REVIEWSThe Star, Hartlepool, Friday April 30th, page 11Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough, April 30, 2004British Country Music Association Bulletin, June 2004