Will Jack "The Singing River Boy" Turner was born June 10, 1921 in Haleyville, Alabama to I.C. Railroad conductor S.W. Turner, and his wife. When he was 6 he would make his first performance at a Winston county wide gathering, winning a blue ribbon. A year later at age 7 his mother would gift him his first ukulele, further cementing his interest in music. A few years later he would get his first guitar, a $8.00 special, in order to back up the fiddle players at local dances. After graduating High School he would find a career in another interest of his- drawing and painti… read more
Will Jack "The Singing River Boy" Turner was born June 10, 1921 in Haleyville, Alabama to I.C. Railroad conductor S.W. Turner, and his wife. When he was 6 he would make his first performance at a Winston county wide gathering, winning a blue ribbon. A year later at age 7 his mother… read more
Will Jack "The Singing River Boy" Turner was born June 10, 1921 in Haleyville, Alabama to I.C. Railroad conductor S.W. Turner, and his wife. When he was 6 he would make his first performance at a Winston county wide gathering, winning a blue ribbon. A year later at age 7 his mother would gift him his first ukulele, further cementing his interest in mus… read more