Sunday, September 24, 2006
Book Captures Life, Times of Doc Williams
From The Intelligencer & Wheeling News-Register
Growing up in East Wheeling back in the ’50s and ’60s I was too young and too busy playing cowboy and Indians to realize that my neighbors were Country Music stars and legends Doc and Chickie Williams.
Also at such a young age, with absolutely no interest what-so-ever in girls, I didn’t really pay attention to their three lovely daughters Madeline, Barbara and Karen, Pooch, Peeper and Punkin as they were called, let alone their respective musical talents. Well, musicians keep time while performing and Doc Williams to this day keeps time and has recorded for friends and fans the times of his life, Chickie’s and the family’s in a new book titled, “A Country Music Legend Doc Williams Looking Back”.
Starting in 2002 at the age of 88, Doc started to record his memoirs on tape and daughter Barbara organized the material into the newly released book. Madeline wrote in the Preface, “How do you write about a lifetime?”
“It has to be a labor of love,” Doc said about the book, which was published by James Thornton, owner of Creative Impressions in Wheeling. The 184-page book contains stories and close to 200 black-and-white photographs which help tell the story.
Relaxing on his front porch and sporting black pants, a red shirt, bolo tie, suspenders, boots and a Stetson and with guitar in hand Doc said, “You might say I’m running out of steam, but I have enough steam left to sit down and talk.” He estimates that they traveled well over a million miles while performing, taking their Doc Williams Show to small towns, “in nearby and faraway places.”
The book is available by contacting Doc Williams, Wheeling Music and Publishing Co., P.O. Box 902 Wheeling, WV 26003, or by calling the publisher James Thornton at Creative Impressions in Wheeling at (304) 232-9623.
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The Intelligencer & Wheeling News-Register
Growing up in East Wheeling back in the ’50s and ’60s I was too young and too busy playing cowboy and Indians to realize that my neighbors were Country Music stars and legends Doc and Chickie Williams.
Also at such a young age, with absolutely no interest what-so-ever in girls, I didn’t really pay attention to their three lovely daughters Madeline, Barbara and Karen, Pooch, Peeper and Punkin as they were called, let alone their respective musical talents. Well, musicians keep time while performing and Doc Williams to this day keeps time and has recorded for friends and fans the times of his life, Chickie’s and the family’s in a new book titled, “A Country Music Legend Doc Williams Looking Back”.
Starting in 2002 at the age of 88, Doc started to record his memoirs on tape and daughter Barbara organized the material into the newly released book. Madeline wrote in the Preface, “How do you write about a lifetime?”
“It has to be a labor of love,” Doc said about the book, which was published by James Thornton, owner of Creative Impressions in Wheeling. The 184-page book contains stories and close to 200 black-and-white photographs which help tell the story.
Relaxing on his front porch and sporting black pants, a red shirt, bolo tie, suspenders, boots and a Stetson and with guitar in hand Doc said, “You might say I’m running out of steam, but I have enough steam left to sit down and talk.” He estimates that they traveled well over a million miles while performing, taking their Doc Williams Show to small towns, “in nearby and faraway places.”
The book is available by contacting Doc Williams, Wheeling Music and Publishing Co., P.O. Box 902 Wheeling, WV 26003, or by calling the publisher James Thornton at Creative Impressions in Wheeling at (304) 232-9623.
Read the article
The Intelligencer & Wheeling News-Register
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I only recently became familiar with Doc Williams while doing some research. I have not yet read this book, but I intend to. Most of the early country musicians have very interesting stories to tell. In a lot of ways, they are the heart of America.
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