Moving To Nashville
Right after graduating from high school in Sevier County in 1964, the teenager moved to Music City. Despite her prodigious talent and dreams of being a singer, she initially found success as a songwriter working alongside her uncle, Bill Owens.
The duo wrote two top-10 hits: Bill Phillips’s 1966 record “Put It Off Until Tomorrow” and Skeeter Davis’s 1967 hit “Fuel to the Flame”.