He was one of four children he had three sisters , and his life became difficult when he was only eight and his parents divorced. That event plunged him into a series of misadventures that resembled something out of a Dickens novel: He was sent off to his paternal grandparents, but he routinely ran away and made his way back to his mother. When she remarried, Snow found himself dealing with a violent stepfather. At home, his mother let him listen to Victrola records, first by Vernon Dalhart, then by the new singer Jimmie Rodgers.
The young couple soon obtained a serious radio job sponsored by the laxative company Crazy Water Crystals, and Snow began billing himself Hank the Yodeling Ranger after learning that Jimmie Rodgers had been made an honorary Texas Ranger.
After a couple of abortive stays in Hollywood and West Virginia, Snow finally was able to crack the American market in l An expert rider, he often toured with a trick riding show, featuring his horse Pawnee.
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Lindsey Cheek. Celebrities Born in Canada. Shane Joseph Ice Hockey Player. Michael Valiante Racing Automobile Driver. When he performed for the neighbours, word got around and I was being invited out somewhere just about every night. So it was through mothers mail-order guitar that I became interested in music. Life at seaPhoto of the Bluenose. Snow painted the schooner on cardboard winning 1st prize at the Lunenburg Fisheries Exhibition.
In , as the tension continued at home, Snow decided to escape by joining a fishing schooner where he served as a flunky or cabin boy. The job did not pay any wages. Snow, however, was allowed to cut out cod tongues and sell them later along with any fish he caught from the deck.
Eaton mail-order catalogue. In or , Snow remembers hearing radio broadcasts while at sea. The one-hour broadcasts featured recordings by such country artists as Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison. These songs gave me a great lift.
He adds that he tried to sing the songs exactly as the artists had, entertaining his fellow crew members by singing and dancing while accompanying himself on a mouth organ. Snows fishing trips went well until August , when the schooner he was sailing on got caught in ferocious winds that blew it uncontrollably toward Sable Island, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because the crews of ships wrecked there rarely survived. Snow writes that when they were about 14 miles from the island, the Good Lord reached out his Hand and changed the wind.
Saved by the grace of God! A day later, Snow learned that six other vessels had been lost in the gale and that men had drowned. Once ashore in Canso, Snow vowed he would never return to the open sea again. I was finished, he writes. No more fishing trips for me. Hard work in hard timesSnow returned to live with his mother and abusive stepfather all the while trying to pull his weight financially by peddling fish door-to-door or landing occasional jobs that included transporting passengers and their luggage by horse-drawn buggy to and from the train station in Lunenburg, unloading salt and coal ships, raking scallops and hauling loads of dried cod into a warehouse for processing and shipping.
One winter, after being reunited with his father, he cut pulpwood and firewood on his fathers farm in the backwoods at Pleasantville, Nova Scotia. The answer came when a storeowner in the village of Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, hired him to paint yellow pinstripes on the wooden spokes of his brand new car.
He offered to pay Snow two dollars per wheel. After the new guitar arrived, Snow experimented by playing runs and chord progressions in the style of Jimmie Rodgers. He also sang and played in an old fishhouse where local men stored their gear. Soon, Snow was invited to perform in a minstrel show in Bridgewater to help raise money for charity.
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