Country music journeyman Cast King hails from a small spot in the hills of Alabama between Heaven and hard luck called Old Sand Mountain where he has been distilling and refining original country music tunes for the last 6 1/2 decades. Cast taught himself to play guitar when he was a 10-year-old boy on Sand Mountain. In 1955 King recorded fewer than a dozen songs with his Honky- Tonk band, The Country Drifters, at the legendary Sun studios in Memphis. Five decades later, he recorded his debut for locust music with local producer & musician Matt Downer at the age of 79. Saw Mill Man is  a revelation of self penned murder ballads, heartbreak songs and some of the finest drinking numbers you're likely to hear.

To many of you, this single album release became a household favorite, a taste of  something raw & unadulterated from a musician few had heard of but whose rough and ready confidence & knack for song garnered praise in Rolling Stone, No Depression, Arthur, Mojo, Harp, Spin, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. Filmmakers started emerging out of the woodwork from all over wanting to tell Cast's story. Alas, no documentary was ever made.  Promoters far and wide tried their best to bring Cast to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and a number of European Cities throughout 2005 & 2006.  but, having never flown in an airplane, he didn't see reason to start at that stage of his life.

Cast King passed away at his Old Sand Mountain home in Alabama On December 13th, 2007. He will be missed.

Matt Downer, guitar

cast king, guitar, singing