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The Baby Boomer Collection: Box Set of 4 - Country Music CD's by John Farran (Silver Wolf Bank 1-4).

• CD 1 My Life in a Story
• CD 2 Rough Cut
• CD 3 Baby Boomer Serenade
• CD 4 Last Curtain Call

49 Original beautiful and soulful songs about sunsets, best friends, love, and life.  Self produced and recorded. 

From my 4 CDs, I have selected 15 songs that are my personal favorites. They are available for downloading on the following links:

• http://cdbaby.com/cd/johnfarran , 
• www.amazon.com/My-Life-Song-John-Farran/dp/B01M5HM4FQ 
• iTunes: Search: John Farran 

About John

I was born in a copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona in 1950. Bisbee is located in southern Arizona about 10 miles from the Mexican border. Growing up in Bisbee, I was a little bit of a cowboy and grew to love country and western music. 

My dad had a country and western band and when I turned 13, I started playing bass guitar for the group. We worked five pieces with my dad playing rhythm guitar and singing lead. We had a gentleman that played fiddle and mandolin guitar, a lady piano player and a drummer. My music roots had a lot of Bob Wills, Bill Anderson, Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold and Ernest Tubbs in them. We played every Saturday night in Douglas, Arizona in a redneck honky-tonk. One of the biggest highlights with my dad’s band was playing on the Douglas radio station Sunday afternoons. This is where I learned to sing.

When I turned 16 I started my own band in Bisbee called “John Farran and the Mule Mountain Boys”. All the band members were the same age and from the same High School. That was because Bisbee only had one high school and my graduating class was 130 kids. We were not old enough to play in bars, so we did a lot of teenage dances out in the valley club house located in the sticks between Bisbee and Douglas. You can only imagine what went on out there with a lot of teenagers and little parental supervision… but we all survived.

My dad transferred to another copper mining town of Tyrone, New Mexico in 1967. I joined up with my mom and dad in Tyrone when I graduated from Bisbee High in 1968. It didn’t take me long to put another band together called “Country Fried”. The guys I hooked up with were a little country and a little rock and roll. With this band I started writing and producing my own music and tried it out at the dances we played for. It went over pretty well, but we never got the opportunity to take it any farther back then.

In 1970 I was in Bakersfield, California working on an audition to go overseas to Viet Nam with the USO show. While in California the draft lottery took place and I drew lucky number 5. The first nineteen birthdays drawn in the lottery had to report to Uncle Sam’s Army in thirty days. I went to Viet nam, but it wasn’t with the USO show and thank God I survived that brutal war.

I got married to my beautiful lover and friend Rhonda while I was in the service. Coming home from Viet Nam was very special to me, because I had completed my commitment to Uncle Sam. Rhonda and I moved back to Silver City, New Mexico where I returned to work for the copper mines, started a new band “Shades of Country” and a new family. This band was very special because two of my best friends were part of it. The group was a real family. Teddy and Dirk were also married to ladies named Rhonda, so that made three!! 

We kept this band together for several years playing the local bars, weddings, family parties and the Elks Club. We always had dreams of going big time, but with young families this was only a dream and it never became reality.

In 1992 we built a recording studio in the basement of our house in Silver City. Teddy, my two sons Chad and Todd and I started producing and recording “My Life in Song”. The end product for all our efforts and love is in the Silver Wolf Bank CD.

In 2000 Rhonda and I transferred to another one of our copper mines in Miami, Arizona. We bought a lake house at Roosevelt Lake about 25 miles from the mine and are still here today. I have recorded three additional albums since that time. It will be our retirement home until the good Lord takes us home!!

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