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ABOUT ME For those of you who don't know who I am, well, le'me tell'ya....."I'm Danny Eakin, The Travelin' Minstrel of the Ozarks". I'been pickin' the banj'er, the guitar, and the harmonica and "tellin' stuff" for 'bout all my life. You Know, I'm a child of God and proud to be a HILLBILLY ! I was raised in the suburbs of a place in the Ozark Mountains called Booger Holler, Arkansas, Population 7, Countin' One Coondog (On Historic Highway 7, South of Jasper) where livin' is simple and the priorities are plain........ #One; God Almighty and his Son we call Our Saviour, Jesus Christ 'cause we hillbillies believe that God is responsible for all thangs ever Ate, Helt, Felt or Smelt as well as all thangs right sweet and holy about this old world..... # Two; Momma, 'cause of two thangs; Momma cooks supper....And it seems that when God gets upset with you he elects Momma ta carry his wrath ta you (Now, Daddy brings wrath, too, but we all know who told'eem to, don't we ?...Momma, right?) ..... # Three; Yore Kinfolks, 'cause if Momma gets bad sick and can't cook supper, you don't wanna eat what Daddy cooks, so you go eat with the kinfolks till Momma gets outta the sickbed...... And # Four; Yore Coondog, 'cause when ever'thang else goes ta pot, yore coondog can find some supper in the belly-slap of his tail.....So, you see, there ain't no # five, 'cause we figger if yore silly enough no ta have a good coondog, yore family sooner'r'later'll starve ta death." I'been pickin' and sangin' most all my life 'bout somethin' or 'nother. I guess I learned my love fer sangin' from Momma, who sung all'time 'round the house and played her momma's pump organ. We was tak'n ta church all'time whether we wanted to 'er not. And Momma played piano downt'tha church and still does today. So, through the years, I ended up comin' to this area (Branson) back in '72 just lookin' for somewhere to pick and sang. And while I was a'doin' that, the best thang in the world happened to me,.....I met my beautiful wife, Deanna. Oh, she just took my heart from the start, with her big eyes and sweet face. I took to her like a two-nosed pup. She shore has been good to me, you know, me bein' a picker and all. And she didn't ask me to stop neither, no matter how hard it got on the road. Some people might not know that the life of a musician and sanger is perty rough for the first few years. But Deanna took to it like a youngun whistlin' "Jesus Loves Me"! I thank the Good Lord for her ever'day. Well, we traveled to places like Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, and a whole lotta other places and finally decided to raise our two kids where the "priorities" were right. And we're glad we did 'cause the kids have become ever'thang we could ever pray for in a Christian Upbringin' and the Branson area helped us do that, what with all the Christian Youth Groups and such. Well, that was back in the summer of '84 when we come back here. And I started sangin' and tellin' stuff on the stages of Silver Dollar City, Missouri in April of '85. Now I'm part of a special group called "The Homestead Pickers™" |
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AUTUMN & JASON 
| She's down'n Booger Holler" 
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with his nine brothers and sisters and my Great Grand'pap'(the tall one) and my 'LITTLE' Grandmother (the short lady)"  
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