Down Home: Listen to Dalton Roberts’s podcast on Houston “Buck” Turner, one of the unsung heroes of his life. 08/10/10
Fellow musician and songwriter Kris Bancroft wrote something to me in 1999 that has stuck in my mind.
Here is part of his note:
“I remember a time when Ed Leamon, Paul Lohorn, Paul McGee and Rome Benedict were at O.J. Bailey’s wake. Ed cried like a baby. I think we all did. Someone decided that it would be fitting that we have a jam session, and Ed did a solo on ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee’ that was unlike any rendition I have ever heard.
“If you’d ever heard that song you would probably have thought to yourself, as I did, that a sax couldn’t possibly make those sounds. Well, Ed could make a sax sound any way he wanted it to sound. You know, a lot of great musicians were born in Chattanooga. It must be something in the water.”