“What in God’s Name took place in the life of William Woodard Callery (aka Billy C.) that would cause him to walk away from all the success he had acquired in a business that has so many camped out at its door?” “My goodness, his song HANDS ON THE WHEEL has, by music industry critics, been deemed the Spiritual Center Piece of Willie Nelson’s masterpiece album, The Red Headed Stranger, the album that shot Willie into the galaxy of superstardom and has to date sold over 50 million copies.” “Not only that, this guy walked away from what could have been a lifetime recording contract with Columbia Records.” “His ‘single’ The First Showboat, off his first album on Columbia Records attained ‘Pick Hit of the Week’ in Billboard Magazine in ’76 and scored him a full-page write-up in Rolling Stone Magazine along with top billing in Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic of ’76.” “What in God’s Name caused this guy to walk away from all of that?” And there’s more! “Before all this, Jerry Jeff Walker put this guy on the map in the early ’70s with his own great rendition of Billy C.’s song The First Showboat. I’m here to tell you, this is far beyond religion! If only I could convince my old compadres. I had been Born Again! Born anew of the Spirit of God! I had stepped out of the Realm of the Damned into a Freedom I had no idea even existed all because I cried out to a God I knew was there but had never met. A Door had appeared in the realm of the Spirit and I had simply stepped out of that cryptic land of tailspins and torments into the sterling Light of an Uncloudy Day, Born Again. I had been visited from on high at 38 years of age and was now well into my 39th year. I was weightless, strong, and of a sound and godly mind. I was as free, if not even more so than I was back in the days of my early youth. My high-dollar concubines whiskey, cocaine, and China white must have left town sometime during the night. That “Storm that Brewed on the Other Side of Me” was gone as was the spirit of addiction.
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