MARGARET LEWIS
Margaret Lewis (born Snyder, Texas, about 1941) is a country music/rockabilly singer/songwriter and music entrepreneur. After some guest appearances on the Louisiana Hayride radio program, she joined the cast in 1958. In Shreveport where the show was based she met Mira Ann Smith (1926–1989), a local guitarist and aspiring songwriter who had her own record label, Ram Records. After the label was closed down in the early 1960’s. Lewis and Smith then decided to concentrate on songwriting. Lewis continued to record at times, and she had her only chart appearance as a singer with “Honey (I Miss You Too)” (1968), which peaked at No. 74 on the country charts. It was an answer song to Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey”. (More from Wikipedia)
The Lonesome Drifter has some lovely reminiscences within the liner notes on the Eager Boy LP; they conclude: “The last show I did was in 1960. Margaret Lewis and all of them were on the bill. Like I said, I was a loner. I’d do my thing and cut and run. We used this fiddle player that night, and on the second song, he sounded like he was skinning a cat! I put my guitar across my shoulder and I quit right there. Pawned my guitar. I’ve regretted it ever since. But that played into the mindset of the Lonesome Drifter, no good, a down and outer. I guess it added some to the mystery about me.”
(May 2011)
