Born August 26, 1937, in Lubbock, Texas, Don Bowman liked to boast that he was the world’s worst guitar picker. And while it’s supposedly true that his aptitude for the instrument was limited to three chords, he had a multitude of other talents. He was a singer, a songwriter, a DJ, and a comedian—Willie Nelson once referred to him as “my funny friend Don Bowman.”
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Bowman died on this day (June 5) in 2013 in a Forsyth, Missouri nursing home at age 75. Today we’re remembering the multi-talented man on the 13th anniversary of his death.
The Life and Career of Don Bowman
Growing up in Lorenzo, Texas, Rubel Don Bowman graduated from New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell before attending Texas Tech University in Lubbock…