Wiggle in the Road Records

Michael Jarrett

Biography and Story

I started in music very young, 6 maybe, with the usual boring classical music lessons, but when I hit my teenage years I dumped the music lessons and started listening to blues stations of which there was only one in Oakland close to where I grew up in Forest Knolls California.

I joined the Air force in May of 1955 after turning 17 with parents consent, and at the same time I started playing in the local bars with a phony ID .... That was 52 years ago...

Along the way I've made quite a few stops starting with my 5 year musical indoctrination in Texas starting in Wichita Falls and from there to Big "D"... I played in one Dallas nite spot for 13 straight months, 7 nites a week where I turned 21...

Texas is where my real musical training truly began. It was the Blues that really hooked me in, and the very best blues at that time was coming straight of Texas, and I was right in the middle of it!

After that, the band I was with got a gig opening for Jerry Lee Lewis in the fall and winter of 1959 which almost turned tragic for me with a devastating car crash that left me severely injured.

So back home I went to convalesce. after healing and hitting the road again it was year after year of playing the bars where most of the time music was the 3rd. thing people would even come into a bar for...

I would say that during that time I became more serious about writing songs and would play them in the bars and clubs and people liked them..so, with a pocket full of dreams, and a pocket full of songs, i left the bar scene for good in 1970 and headed for L. A. where by the spring of 1971...

I had two songs recorded by the King himself, Elvis Presley."I'll Be Home On Christmas Day" and "I'm Leavin"...I stayed in L. A. for the next 10 years or so before moving up to the Central Coast for another 10 and so on to where I live today?;) I plan to retire someday and just write songs and tell stories of a very interesting life.... well, so far anyway ;)

~ Mj ~

Wiggle in the Road Internet Radio

Michael Jarrett

Biography and Story

I started in music very young, 6 maybe, with the usual boring classical music lessons, but when I hit my teenage years I dumped the music lessons and started listening to blues stations of which there was only one in Oakland close to where I grew up in Forest Knolls California.

I joined the Air force in May of 1955 after turning 17 with parents consent, and at the same time I started playing in the local bars with a phony ID .... That was 52 years ago...

Along the way I've made quite a few stops starting with my 5 year musical indoctrination in Texas starting in Wichita Falls and from there to Big "D"... I played in one Dallas nite spot for 13 straight months, 7 nites a week where I turned 21...

Texas is where my real musical training truly began. It was the Blues that really hooked me in, and the very best blues at that time was coming straight of Texas, and I was right in the middle of it!

After that, the band I was with got a gig opening for Jerry Lee Lewis in the fall and winter of 1959 which almost turned tragic for me with a devastating car crash that left me severely injured.

So back home I went to convalesce. after healing and hitting the road again it was year after year of playing the bars where most of the time music was the 3rd. thing people would even come into a bar for...

I would say that during that time I became more serious about writing songs and would play them in the bars and clubs and people liked them..so, with a pocket full of dreams, and a pocket full of songs, i left the bar scene for good in 1970 and headed for L. A. where by the spring of 1971...

~ Mj ~

Wiggle in the Road Internet Radio

Fresh From
the
Karat Patch...

Where it's all about
the Song!

15 Songs
by

Kent Maxson

Michael Jarrett

David Mac Kechnie

**"Just Outside Nashville" CD/Album Information**

Listen to our new
Internet Radio Station:
WIGL; Wiggle in the Road
Internet Radio

Michael Jarrett

Biography and Story

I started in music very young, 6 maybe, with the usual boring classical music lessons, but when I hit my teenage years I dumped the music lessons and started listening to blues stations of which there was only one in Oakland close to where I grew up in Forest Knolls California.

I joined the Air force in May of 1955 after turning 17 with parents consent, and at the same time I started playing in the local bars with a phony ID .... That was 52 years ago...

Along the way I've made quite a few stops starting with my 5 year musical indoctrination in Texas starting in Wichita Falls and from there to Big "D"... I played in one Dallas nite spot for 13 straight months, 7 nites a week where I turned 21...

Texas is where my real musical training truly began. It was the Blues that really hooked me in, and the very best blues at that time was coming straight of Texas, and I was right in the middle of it!

After that, the band I was with got a gig opening for Jerry Lee Lewis in the fall and winter of 1959 which almost turned tragic for me with a devastating car crash that left me severely injured.

So back home I went to convalesce. after healing and hitting the road again it was year after year of playing the bars where most of the time music was the 3rd. thing people would even come into a bar for...

I would say that during that time I became more serious about writing songs and would play them in the bars and clubs and people liked them..so, with a pocket full of dreams, and a pocket full of songs, i left the bar scene for good in 1970 and headed for L. A. where by the spring of 1971...

~ Mj ~

Wiggle in the Road Internet Radio

Fresh From the Karat Patch... Where it's all about the Song!

15 Songs by

Kent Maxson

Michael Jarrett

David Mac Kechnie

"Just Outside Nashville" CD/Album Information

Listen to our new Internet Radio Station: WIGL; Wiggle in the Road Internet Radio

Fresh From
the
Karat Patch...

Where it's all about
the Song!

15 Songs
by

**"Just Outside Nashville" CD/Album Information**

Listen to our new
Internet Radio Station:
WIGL; Wiggle in the Road
Internet Radio