In the mid‑seventies, when he was red‑hot, Waylon played Memphis, and his one‑time rhythm guitar player and road manager, Curtis Buck, a/k/a Jerry McGill, came to the show in drag. McGill, who had a Memphis rock and roll band in the fifties and recorded for Sun Records, was eluding prosecution for various federal crimes. He had developed a problem traveling with Waylon when they put the metal detectors in airports. But there had been times when McGill's guns—he normally carried three, counting the one in his girlfriend's purse—had come in handy, like the time the cop had McGill's boss under arrest at the Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard, and McGill talked him out of it. It's a scene we'll save for the film version.
- Stanley Booth,
from Hands Up!
Gadfly, November 1998.
According to Escott & Hawkins' Sun Records Discography the line up is McGill:vcl, Billy Riley: gtr,Brad Suggs (who recorded Don't Shoot Me Baby for Meteor): bs, JM Van Eaton:dms, Charlie Rich: pno and Martin Willis: sax. Recording date was 1-21-59 and it was done @ 706 Union, probably one of the last sessions there before they moved into the 2nd studio.
Notiz von JERRY vom 27. März 2010:
This is Jerry McGill I now live in Alabama and just finished recording an album at Phillips Recording Service, in Memphis with the North Mississippi All Stars.
