When he returned to civilian life, he became a full-time musician with the Stone Country Band. “So I love the Marine Corps i think they actually saved my life.”Ī self-described “grunt,” he was on ship off the shore of Cambodia near the end of the Vietnam War, but didn’t see action. So i had that reputation around town that if Dwane said he's going to do something, he's gonna. They really showed me what self discipline is and, you know, you keep a good course and just keep pushing after what you're after and you'll eventually get it. “I owe the Marine Corps a lot of what I do today. I spent my 18th birthday at Parris Island. “So I asked my mom and dad to sign me up for the Marine Corps. They were going to put me in some kind of industrial school or something,” he said. But that led to a crucial decision after he got in trouble for it. He said that as a 17-year-old in high school, he would skip out of school to go fishing at the foot of Hertel Avenue and to play guitar with a friend. Hall admits he wasn’t much interested in school as a kid. He recalls going into honky tonks to play lap steel with his father when he was just 9 or 10 years old. Growing up, he played in a family band with his father and seven brothers. Hall grew up on the street behind the Sportsmens Tavern, where he met his future wife, Denise, when he was just 8. Hall also started a recording studio next to the Sportsmens Tavern in 1995, providing a studio home for many of the best Buffalo-area performers in recent years. Hall was also the driving force behind the creation of the Sportsmens Americana Music Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering, promoting and expanding community appreciation for Americana music from Buffalo and Western New York through the production and sponsorship of performance and broadcast events and presentation of seminars and workshops.The group, founded in 2014, has already hosted successful major events such as a show recreating the Band’s “Last Waltz” show, the Silo City festivals and the group’s annual Foundation Festival as well as supporting many smaller-scale educational programs.
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