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** Booking Darryl Worley, country music artist - book Country Music Artists - Contemporary Country - © Richard De La Font Agency, Inc. - For serious booking requests only, click here: For More Information If anybody is in touch with heartland America, it is Darryl Worley. Raised in rural Hardin County, Tennessee, the home turf of "Walking Tall" sheriff Buford Pusser, he comes from blue-collar stock and a long line of musicians. Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins were singers and pickers. Darryl started playing harmonica at age five and guitar at age nine. As kids, he and his brothers formed a harmony trio with Darryl as its lead singer. He began writing songs when he was in high school.
"I 'graduated' from that to the Moose Lodge and the local American Legion Hall," Worley quips. "You name it, I played 'em all down there. I could make a list of beer joints as long as my arm. As soon as I graduated from college, I really started hammering away on songwriting." With degree in hand, he went to work as a research biologist in Tuscumbia, Alabama, later returning to his home county to teach school and, briefly, sell cars. He next worked in chemical sales for a company in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Then he formed a partnership with some friends and launched his own chemical supply business. But all this time, music was tugging at his sleeve.
His song tapes led to a contract with FAME publishing in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which found Darryl Worley chucking the life of a prospering businessman to roll the dice as a $150-a-week songwriter. At that point, his singing became a matter of survival. Fortunately, acts like Archer Park, The Hutchins and even
George Jones recorded his early tunes. And in 1994, on the strength of "A Good Day To Run," among other songs, Darryl Worley 'graduated' again, this time to EMI Publishing in Nashville. Hit songs include --
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