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INI THF CHARI OTTF OBSFRVFR I www charlotte GASTON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 2003 3L She wants Grandpa in hall of fame Now You Can Place Your Classified Ad Country Music i i mil treasure what I have of my And I want some recognition for NIKKI HORNSBY GRANDDAUGHTER Hours A Day spokeswoman Wendy Pearl said a 12-member nominating committee comes up with a slate of hall of fame nominees who are voted on by 300 CMA members She said a category added last year to the hall of fame includes country music pioneers who achieved prominence before 1950 Joe Johnson curator at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame said not much about Dan Hornsby in the state-supported museum that opened in 1996 but like to include more one of those wonderful people so active in Atlanta who we now have the opportunity to Johnson said Nikki Hornsby is encouraged and says she will keep looking for information about her grandfather still a lot to dig up about what he she said is a hard life but a good life And something we shared: our lives in Joe DePriest (704) 868-7745 depriestcharlotteobserver com Music historian Charles Wolfe called Hornsby a versatile but peripheral player in the music business was an important minor said Wolfe who wrote the script for last PBS series Roots Music had a real good voice and sang on records with some good string bands always been interested in legacy Nikki Hornsby grew up in Fairfax Va where her father Joe worked with the Federal Aviation Administration A former Marine Corps pilot flown in the Korean War Joe Hornsby focused on his career and seldom talked about his musician father When Nikki Hornsby discovered her musical talent at an early age her mother explained where it probably came from Grandpa Dan played his records a few time but it all sounded so Nikki Hornsby said was into folk music at the In the early 1970s while attending Belmont Abbey College and Sacred Heart College in Belmont Hornsby sang in lounges in Gastonia and Charlotte And she did lounge gigs while attending George Mason University in the Washington area Her dad caught one show and shook his head said can see my dad (in her) and nothing I can do about Nikki Hornsby recalled said That life killed my I saw the pain in my own father" But Hornsby left college without a degree to follow her passion Just go to wwwchariottecom classifieds and click on "place and pay for an ad" Your ad will appear in both The Charlotte Observer and on chaiiottecom The process of entering your ad is as easy as 123! 1 Compose your ad 2 Select your ad pricing package and schedule 3 Pay for the ad ffiljeCIjarlottc (Dbsccucr CONNECTING for music She sang pop and folk country and gospel playing lounges clubs concerts and conventions made commercials and records and says she writes a song every day And while she always aims high never quite hit the big time Like her grandfather she feels like she has the heart of a minstreL After her parents died she inherited her musical archive And out on the road she picked up bits and pieces about his role in early country music -as performer musician songwriter talent scout and recording assistant treasure what I have of my Hornsby said I want some recognition for hoping to at least get his name in a major museum Country Music Association Victor But real claim to fame is linked to his role as assistant to legendary music executive Frank Walker A New York native Walker worked with Columbia Records in Atlanta and discovered early country music stars such as Gid Tanner and Riley Puckett of the Skillet Lickers Charlie Poole and Clarence Ashley He signed blues singer Bessie Smith to Columbia and later in his career signed Hank Williams to MGM Hornsby just line up acts such as Tanner and the Skillet Lickers he often sang on their records or played a role in the comic skits Hornsby also made records of his own such as Mobile and Shelby The latter ballad which sold 9000 copies told a true story of a collapse in downtown Shelby and mentioned the names of the six people killed The song ended: the tears of fond remembrance flow gently full and free Let all who hear my story extend their sympathy Both the whispering hope of ages with true ambition shod leaps forth in reconstruction for hope is part of God And remember a city whose streets be our goal where buildings never crumble that city career slumped dining the Depression and relatives said he developed a drinking problem When he died an Atlanta Journal columnist wrote he had the of a minstreL" Rugs Antiques Furniture Wholesale Warehouse Thur Fri Sat 704-717-7655 803-547-9797 Always At Least 70 OFF eljeCljarlottefflbcriicri rA real rose dipped in real gold! 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