7/30/2023 0 Comments Ive been everywhere lyrics![]() ![]() ![]() In 1933 Snow visited Halifax station CHNS and was given an audition. “My debut was a big success,” Snow writes. When his turn came in the show, he played a song called “I Went to See My Gal Last Night”. “Someone blackened my face with black polish and put white rings around my eyes and lips,” Snow recalls. Soon, Snow was invited to perform in a minstrel show in Bridgewater to help raise money for charity. He also sang and played in an old fishhouse where local men stored their gear. After the new guitar arrived, Snow experimented by playing runs and chord progressions in the style of Jimmie Rodgers. He offered to pay Snow two dollars per wheel. The answer came when a storeowner in the Atlantic coast village of Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, hired him to paint yellow pinstripes on the wooden spokes of his brand new car. He figured he could sell his old guitar for five dollars, but wondered how he would raise the additional $7.95. ![]() Snow spotted a picture of a guitar for $12.95 in Eaton’s catalogue. It was at this time that his mother ordered a Hawaiian steel guitar advertised in a magazine along with free lessons and several 78rpm gramophone records. At age 12 he weighed only 80 pounds and was frail. His nickname growing up in his family was Jack. He was the fifth of six children, the two eldest died in infancy. link: “ I’ve Been Everywhere”Ĭlarence Eugene “Hank” Snow was born in the small community of Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, on May 9, 1914. ![]()
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