Stephen M. Lawson

I was born in the “Okie Ghetto” of South Modesto, California, the fifth of ten children of itinerant farm workers. I have four brothers and five sisters. As a child I traveled from state to state with my family picking and chopping cotton. As a young man I worked in canneries and factories around Modesto, then I moved to Odessa, Texas where I worked as a roughneck in the oil fields and learned to load and wire class C explosives for several wireline companies. After my son Seth was born I moved back to California where I became a Medical Transcriptionist for Tuolomne General Hospital in Sonora, California. A few years later I moved to Westville, Oklahoma and then to Lincoln, Arkansas. When I was younger I played and sang in bars and taverns from Madawaska, Maine to Calexico, California. I am now retired, and I care for my older brother who is a disabled Vietnam Veteran. My favorite style of music is Country. I love the old songs of Charlie Pride and George Jones. I have been writing songs nearly all of my adult life, and God willing, I will live to write a few more.