In the 1980's Fox was a founding member of the Nashville country band Bandana. Newman, Billy Jo Spears, Del Reeves, Ferlin Huskey, and the legendary Merle Travis.įox played on the Grand Ole Opry and performed music in all the lower 48 states, as well as in Germany, New Zealand, Belgium, and Canada. In Nashville, he played bass on stage or in recording studios, or had his original songs recorded, by the likes of artists, Crystal Gayle, Don Gibson, Terri Gibbs, Charly McClain, Jimmy C. Now, he says he is inspired that his new CD of songs like “The Encounter” and “Who Am I?” will be a witness to others, possibly some following his former path in life.įox has spent most of his musical life sharing the stage with nationally recognized recording artists and musicians. “It took over half my life to finally realize there was only one who really loved and cared for me His name is Jesus Christ.” “It was nothing more than idolatry,” he says, “pulling me away from my Christian upbringing, breaking up my marriages and giving me an excuse to hide from the truth.”įox says at that point in his life, sure, he was willing to live in “la la land” with the devil-one which he believes often whispered in his ear to ‘live it up!’ But adolescent dreams of stardom never quite turn out as planned.”įox says the attention and adulation, easy money, yes, alcohol and drugs, among many other things, pulled him off into the wrong direction of life. “Eventually, I made it to the Nashville school of hard knocks, where, in pursuit of a hit song, I signed a Warner Brother’s recording contract with a band and co-wrote a Billboard top 20 song which served as my diploma. He professes how he knew Jesus, but would soon move on to what he thought was a better way of life, that is, Nashville. He attended church and attended singing conventions throughout his young life.Īt 16, he began composing original melodies accompanied by what he calls the “monotonous sound of a tractor.” He drove one all summer as a teen in the western Oklahoma heat. Jerry Fox of Normandy began working on his “Gospel Journeyman” album, which just debuted in 2021 with New Freedom Records, at age 11.ĭecades ago, his uncle was showing him guitar chords on a $12 Stella guitar.
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