THE HEART OF A COWBOY By DEBBIE MACRAE
He was 10-years-old, driving a team of oxen and hauling apples through the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had come to town, so he stole away on his bicycle – a two-mile trip – to watch. When he got back, his momma was waitin’ with her old slipper to give him a whuppin’… He stood for a week to eat, but that event would become the catalyst for a career that would make him one of Canada’s Country music grandfathers. 46 WESTERN HORSE REVIEW MAY/JUNE 2021
