DARRELL McCALL
LA GRANGE — The Fayette County Country Music Club will host a special Opry show featuring the great country music entertainer, Darrell McCall, on Monday, May 18, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in La Grange.
The show starts at 7 p.m. and the doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $8.
McCall grew up listening to the music and guitar picking of Merle Travis. He started his own Saturday morning country deejay show on WSRW radio in Hillsboro, Ohio, at the age of 15.
McCall began playing dances as a musician and joined the United States Army Reserves after high school.
McCall and Johnny Paycheck moved to Nashville in 1958 and formed the “Young Brothers.” McCall began to work as a harmony singer with such artists as George Jones, Faron Young, Freddie Hart, Carl Smith and Ray Price.
He joined Price as a member of his Cherokee Cowboys and later joined the bands of both Faron Young and Hank Williams Jr.
