About.

Or the continuing saga of how a kid from southeast Texas went from gangly, gawky and goofy  to the world wide web. To borrow a line from Jerry Jeff Walker, it’s not been so much a career as an adventure (but without the guitar accompaniment and the rhymin’ words). 

He said, ‘I have been a bartender, a journalist, a roundabout, a roughneck, a sailor, a soldier, truck driver, waiter, and a weatherman. I have worked in dance halls, hospitals, radio and TV stations, in office buildings and helicopters, on newspapers and the Internet.

‘I have seen the David, the Mona Lisa and the Sistine Chapel. I have videotaped young Germans chipping away at the Berlin Wall. I have bathed in the Tigris River and I have dined on caviar and vodka in a Leningrad apartment. I’ve seen a hawk on the wing and Spring at the Great Divide. I have lived in California, Indiana, Kentucky, east Texas, west Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Hill Country, and Italy, too. And I have heard Doc Watson play Columbus Stockade Blues.’

- Dave ‘Sledge' Hamerly

One eye on the open road, 1956; Hilldale Drive, Nederland, Texas, USA