Leon Everette's guest appearances

Leon Everette

About Nashville Podcast with Mike Rodgers & Dan Whitehurst

Overdrive Radio

Tyler Mahan Coe

Robert Ellis

Tom Segura

Jason Lee

Ryan Paevey

Aaron Tippin

Chris Hardwick

Richard Wilson

Scott Darling

April Richardson

John Condren

Kevin Rutherford

Jack Roberts

Mike Ryan

Scott Jordan

OwlTail

Ep 56: Leon Everette #2 - Former RCA Recording Artist Mike and Dan talk to Leon Everette for a 2nd time to discuss his entertainment career and the new projects he's working on now.

Ep 56: Leon Everette #2 - Former RCA Recording Artist

Wednesday night in Dallas, classic country star and gospel singer Leon Everette, with trucker-songwriter Bill Weaver, started us up with a sound-check of sorts that turned into an impromptu extended jam -- you'll hear some of that and more in this week's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast. (Paul Marhoefer, too.) And though the news has been dominated this week and the previous one by the hours of service, we sit down at GATS for a chat about history, training and more with Jay Thompson of Transportation Business Associates. He grew up in rural Indiana and starting his working career driving big trucks, a route taken by the generations of men in his family as well, all the way back to his grandfather, Walter Thompson. Walter had a chauffer’s license at age 18, in 1917, and given we’re talking today as an industry about the potential for a pilot program for under-21 CDL drivers, we sat down to ferret out a little bit of the history there. As Thompson says, history often repeats itself in various ways …

18 years old and hauling in 1917; Leon Everette, Long Haul Paul from GATS

RCA RECORDING ARTIST/ACTOR/ENTREPRENEUR Leon Everette was a successful RCA country music recording artist when he walked away from the music business while still on the top on the charts. His music career peaked between 1977 and 1985. He recorded eight studio albums, including five for the RCA Nashville label. He charted several singles during this time. He reached the top 10 of the country music charts with the singles "Over", "Giving Up Easy", "Hurricane", "Midnight Rodeo", "Just Give Me What You Think Is Fair", "Soul Searchin'", "My Lady Loves Me (Just as I Am)" and "I Could'a Had You". His story is phenomenal and is very inspirational. He didn’t shy away from any of the painful details. He was very candid and brutally honest. I’m glad he shared his story with us.

Ep 34: Leon Everette - Country Music Artist