Watson Foundation Fellowship to study abroad for a year.
However, thanks to contacts made during his senior year in college, his musical interests took him on a long haul. “I was making a conscious effort, and it was a priority, and then responsibility took over, and it got put on the back burner.” “We were playing pretty heavily for two or three years after college,” he recalls. He played in a college band, the Cumberland Runners, and gigs were steady. I wouldn’t consider myself a musician as much as a singer-songwriter.” “I had the desire to make music or to see what I could do (with the guitar), because I needed music to accompany the songs I was writing. “My friend helped me get my CDL, and I started driving for him off and on,” he says.Ī turning point in his songwriting came around age 17 or 18. Wilson plans to record in December or January.Ībout the time he was finishing up at 4-H, a friend with a trucking company needed more drivers. The grand prize included $1,000 cash, plus a studio recording session provided by AxleOutPro, which makes software that helps drivers easily adjust their fifth wheel and trailer tandem axles. All three drivers performed original songs at the Great American Trucking Show, where a four-judge panel chose the winner. Wilson’s Trucker Talent Search finalist competitors were Will Perry, center, and Keith Snyder, right. He then switched to working for the county’s 4-H Club Foundation. He went back to school to take some arts education and German courses and then began teaching art at an elementary school. The dangerous stretch was immortalized in Jerry Reed’s “The Legend” (from “Smokey and the Bandit”) and Johnny Cash’s “Monteagle Mountain.”Īfter studying studio art and minoring in music at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, Wilson worked in aftermarket gauge restoration. Perhaps that’s partly tied to being born and raised in Monteagle, Tennessee, known by truckers for sitting atop a particularly steep grade of Interstate 24 northwest of Chattanooga.
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