Billy Yates first cut as a songwriter was the George Jones' smash, "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair", Billy Yates Tickets but that initial success was the culmination of years of hard work and thin times, as well as an uncompromising commitment to the power of country music.
Born in Doniphan, Missouri, Yates was raised on a small farm five miles outside the town of 1,700 located near the Arkansas line. "We pretty much lived Billy Yates Tickets off the land", Billy recalls. "I remember the big gardens we would plant. We had our own milk cow for milk and butter and raised our own beef, pork and poultry."
Both of Yates' parents came from musical families and he got an early initiation into performing live during a regular Sunday morning broadcast on KDFN-AM in Billy Yates Tickets Doniphan. "My dad would play guitar and the rest of us would sing on a 15-minute radio show we'd do before we went to church". Country was all Billy ever knew, whether it was the country-gospel music or just the reality of his upbringing. "I suppose we were fairly poor, even in that small community, but we Billy Yates Tickets always had everything we needed and I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything".
Yates began singing harmonies while digging into his parent's record collection -- a stack which included plenty of Jim Reeves, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Billy Yates Tickets Mac Wiseman, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and the Louvin Brothers. "That sort of evolved into listening to artists like Emmylou Harris and Don Williams later on," Billy says.
Although Yates would occasionally sing a song or two at weddings or the county fair, he insists he was still too shy to feel comfortable performing in public. Billy Yates Tickets That reluctance changed suddenly after his high school graduation when he visited the Lake Wappapello Opry, a family oriented show in Wappapello, Missouri.
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