“I was a policeman in St. Louis and someone hit me over the head. It is a dangerous job. They put me in drug enforcement administration. I stayed over four years and then went into homicide. We were having 3-4 homicides a day. I had to get out so moved to Nashville and started writing songs and got a recording contract. I played all over the world. I moved to Miami and played in a parade and fell off the float and hit my head. I died and went to heaven and God said, ‘Get back down there, I am not done with you yet.’ I had to learn how to walk and talk all over again and I haven’t shut up since.”
I played in enough clubs–I never wanted to have my own
“I'm from Dauphin Island, so my family goes way back. My mother was the oldest girl of 13 children, and all of her...
Shelley has lived an amazing life. Read her memoir…”I have a dream, the story of my life…I think “