Country
Music DJ, Gerry House
"Country
Music Broke My Brain." |
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CEU Editor, Roy Skropits |
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 I had the opportunity
to talk to one of the best known DJ's of country
music - "Gerry House". Here's a few
quick facts about Gerry House - For the past 30
years, Gerry has worked in the music
entertainment business, and in the last 22 years,
he has worked for WSIX-FM.
First and foremost Gerry is a writer; he wrote
his own daily radio material and jokes, plus he
wrote TV scripts for other shows including the
ACM, CMA, CMT Awards shows and American Idol.
He's also written more than 50 songs recorded by
artists including George Strait, Reba McEntire,
and Randy Travis just to name a few.
I asked Gerry if he would share a few of his
favorite "country star" stories.
Roy:
How about Willie Nelson - any favorite stories
about time spent with Willie?
Gerry:
That's funny you ask, because throughout 20
years, we both stayed at the same hotel in
London, called "the Capital." I used to
be on the BBC. I walked in to the hotel and
Clive, the concierge, said, "oh Mr. House,
one of your friends Mr. Willie Nelson was here
last week. He parked his bus right outside."
And I said, "well how did that go?"
Clive said, "well you know Willie smokes
stuff, and in fact several of the maids when up
to his suite and never came down." So I
said, "I guess they just stayed up there. I
don't know." Willie is so iconic, he's great
- he came in and did sports for me one day. Can
you imagine... "this is Willie Nelson with
sports" - but he was great!
Roy:
And how about Waylon Jennings?
Gerry:
The only time Waylon ever play golfed, was with
me and singer/songwriter Tony Joe White
("Polk Salad Annie" and "Rainy
Night in Georgia." We played 9 holes.  Tony Joe White
told Waylon to meet us at the country club.
Waylon didn't know you can't play golf at a
country club in just anything that you show up
in. There at the first tee is Waylon Jennings
with hat, a black t-shirt, black jeans and cowboy
boots. We had to go to the pro shop, because they
wouldn't let him play. We had to buy him $400
worth of clothes and shoes so he could play. We
rented him clubs and Tony Joe got him pink golf
balls! We told Waylon, that's the cool thing now,
but pink golf balls were for women! He played 9
holes and at the turn he said, "House I
played golf, I can say I played golf and I can
tell you, I'm never playing golf again!" He
didn't hit one ball. I heard more curse words in
that two hours than I heard in my entire life. I
said,
"welcome to golf." He just got into
that big land yacht and took off. But Waylon
Jennings - what a guy and hilarious.
Gerry House is the author of a new book called
"Country Music Broke My Brain." This is
a must have book! Gerry reveals never-aired,
never-before published conversations with country
music's biggest names and leaves you with his own
crazy antics.www.CountryMusicBrokeMyBrain.com
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