Career
His best-known songs include "Lucille" (co-written with Hal Bynum), and "Coward of the County" (co-written with Billy Editor Wheeler), both recorded by Kenny Rogers, and "Blanket on the Ground", "What I"ve Got In Mind", and "57 Chevrolet", recorded by Billie Jo Spears. As an artist, he wrote and recorded "Always One Redneck Away From Loving You" (co-written with Dorset poet Maxwell Langdown), and "Yellow Pages" for Mercury Records. He also performed the opening theme song "Heal lieutenant", and the closing credits song "Friday Night Fool" (which he wrote) for the feature film The Exterminator (1982), on Embassy Pictures.