Just want to let you know about a friend of mine and her new CD. Many of you know Lou Ann Petty. She has appeared in several plays at the University Playhouse, Texas A&M Commerce (Smoke On The Mountain, Hank Williams – Lost Highway, Always – Patsy Cline, and others) and has been playing and singing music for many years in and around the Hunt County area. I first met her father at L3 Communications, then E-Systems, in 1977 when I first started working there. I didn’t meet Lou Ann until several years after that when she also started working there. Sometime during those years, we both started participating in the musical portion of our company’s annual “Project Christmas Spirit” program. Lou Ann came to Paris several years ago and sang on the “Texas Music Shop”, a show produced by Mike Grigsby and his band, Triden’s Prairie, which I was a part of then.Lou Ann is a talented songwriter (winning the Ruby Allmond Songwriting Contest in 2010) and has recently recorded some of her compositions in the studio of Grammy Award winner, Brad Davis (formally of the Marty Stewart band). Lou Ann asked me to play steel guitar on her project, "I'm Falling", and I gladly accepted.
Check out Lou Ann’s website at http://www.lapetty.com/ . There are clips of her music on the site and her new CD will be on the streets real soon. (Check out #2, “Good and Gone” for a little steel guitar!)
