The young musician Joe Penny had just walked out of the Grey Hound Bus Station in San Angelo, TX, when a tune on a nearby jukebox caught his ear. "Must be a new one out by Jack Guthrie," the musician thought to himself.

Guthrie had indeed had a hit with "Oklahoma Hills" earlier, but it would be several months before the young man found out the tune he had heard was actually by an up and coming singer from Alabama - a singer who would make the young musician a part of country music history. The song was "Move It On Over" and the singer who was soon to become the greatest country music entertainer of all-time was named Hank Williams.

That was Joe Pennington, born January 15th, the youngest of eight children (five of which died from childhood diseases) born to Gary W. Pennington and Mamie Delaney of Plant City, FL. His mother was a music lover and taught her son to play the major chords on the guitar. Pennington started playing the guitar at the age of 10. He was 16 or 17 when he played in his first band, "Suns of the South," a group Pennington met in Norfolk, VA while visiting his sister. He would play with several bands over the years but even Pennington would not now the effect that some of them would have on his life for years to come.                                      Read original text here >>>Joe Penny

Original release FEDERAL 45-12322 (Ohio, US) 03/1958 // This release, repro FEDERAL 45-12322 [1970’s]