Mechel Whitaker:  

Life I spent my early school yrs at N.B. Elementary and N.B.Jr. High. While I was attending Madison High School my most memorible friends were Gill Williams, Milton Davis, Tammy Stoller, Renee Vinette, Gary Daniels and Ronnie Cummins. All was great until my Senior Year when my parents split up. I quit school and packed up and went off to live with some friends in Lebanon Tn. I stayed with them for about six months and then flew off to stay with my grandpartents in a little place called Deer River Minnisota. Deer River is located on an Indian Reservation in the middle of a hole in nowhere land. There I rode horses and walked the long dirt roads day after day until I got my head straight. I talked some since into myself and decided to take a GED test and make something respectable out of myself. After I got tired of wandering around the wilderness I packed my bags and went back to live with my dad. I took the GED and passed, but the respectable person thing did not happen yet, well you see, I still had a lot of oats to sew. I became a Bartender in a bar located in downtown Lebanon. At that time Lebanon was a dry county and people had to bring there on bottles of alcohol. I would mark the bottle with there names and charge them a set up fee for a mixed drink. Isn’t that crazy, charge them for their on alcohol. Needless to say this was not a good atmosphere for me and before long I was caught up in the old game of drinking, smoking, and living with a never ending hangover. I am surprised that I lived through that crazy time of my life. This was not the life for the rich and famous, it was the life of the crazy and senseless. Oh well, I think you have the picture. After about two years of bartending in that little red neck part of town, I packed my bags again and moved to Nashville. There I worked at a bigger, more respectable bar “The Jack Daniels bar and Grill” locate...Expand for more