Cal Sharp: 3 books

I've been a Nashville steel guitar player for 30-some years. I’ve toured with Stonewall Jackson, Little Jimmy Dickens, Red Sovine, George Fox, Faron Young and a few others. I’ve also backed up dozens of other artists on package shows and as a sub, most notably Ray Price and Ernest Tubb. This book is a collection of observations, pictures and stories from those years.

It's 1963, before the Beatles and the Kennedy assassination. It's a lazy summer with nothing for the teenagers in the small town of Calhoun, just outside Cincinnati, to worry about except rock'n'roll, drag racing, and dancing. But then the murders begin.

Hank Barnett is an aging over-the-hill country music star on tour in Texas with a murderous ex-con White Supremist on his trail, armed and ready to kill him for past transgressions. It’s a mystery/suspense story, but it’s not the typical Nashville tale of fans and babes and pampered stars...