Ol' Red

by Don Goodman, Jack

Overview

Although he swears he's innocent, Frankie Tatum is convicted and receives two concurrent life sentences for the double murder of his wife and the local Sheriff's son. Only a last minute reprieve from the Governor saves him from an almost certain death at the hands of the vengeful Sheriff. Instead of incarceration in the Tennessee State Prison System, Frankie is ordered to be transferred to the notorious 'Skullhead Prison' in Southern Georgia on the edge of the deadly Okefenokee Swamp.
He's thrown into a nightmare existence of heavy labor, savage guards and in constant danger from gators, poisonous snakes, quicksand and his fellow inmates.
No one has ever escaped this hellhole overseen by a sadistic warden and a dog with a legendary reputation for never losing his man, Ol' Red.
Here is the real story behind the Blake Shelton country classic hit song, "Ol' Red." If you liked the song you're gonna love the book!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046555486
Publisher:	Jack
Publication date:	02/01/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	714 KB

About the Author

Don Goodman/Songwriter
Born Hohenwald, Tennessee 1944
Don Goodman was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee in the Swan Creek area where much of this story takes place
As a child Don's family followed the call of the automobile and moved to Detroit, Michigan. At the Wyandotte Church of Christ young Don sat between his mother who sang sharp soprano and his father who sang flat bass, so singing in pitch for Don has always been the impossible dream.
He still holds the record for fifty-eight unexcused absences the first time he journeyed through his sophomore year at Taylor Center High School. He spent days in a neighbor's tree writing short stories and poems.
Fueled by the faith of Miss Rosa Lou Wilson, a teacher who convinced him he could be a writer he hitchhiked to Nashville in 1961 with a handful of songs and a twelve string guitar that he still can't tune or play. A couple of thousand songs later he's still, "Livin' the dream."
In 1986 at the "Bull's Creek Bait Shop" in Gallatin, Tennessee he married his beautiful wife Gayle. That same year Don, Mark Sherrill and James "Bo" Bohon composed the country music classic, "Ol' Red." Now that song has inspired him to write his first novel.
Don resides in Tennessee with his wife, son Jeremy, daughter Tiffany and granddaughter's Alyssa and Charlee.

Jack Conrad/Songwriter, Bass Player
Born Easton, Maryland 1948
Appeared and/or recorded with; The Beach Boys, Helen Reddy, The Doors, Dobie Gray, Ray Price, Ray Stevens, Bi-Centennial at the White House with Bob Hope and The Captain and Tennille, Johnny Halladay, Etta James, The Babys, Momma Cass and many others. House band Midnight Special. Bass player on, “Movin’ On Up”, The Jefferson’s theme.

Music director and composer for Jay Leno specials on Showtime (2) and NBC “Philadelphia”.
Awarded a Cleo, Ascap and multiple BMI awards as a songwriter and publisher.

Top 10 records:
The Babys, “Every Time I Think Of You”…The Babys, “Isn’t It Time”
Three Dog Night, “The Family Of Man”
Junko Yagami (Japan), “Purple Town”
Johnny Halliday x 3 (France), (but they’re French titles…sorry!)
Marco Borsato and Lucie Silvas (Benelux), “Every Time I Think Of You”
Udo (Benelux) “Isn’t It Time”, #1 record and winner of The X-Factor
Heart , “If Looks Could Kill”, cut one/side one 8x platinum #1 album
Cuts with Steppenwolf, Wilson Pickett, The Doors, Helen Reddy, El DeBarge, Robin Trower, Dave Mason, Kiki Dee (top 3 UK with Elton John) and many more selling well over 20 million records internationally.