- Gary Claxton
Gary J. Claxton aka The Mouth of the South born on November 21, 1966 in Savannah, Georgia. He was raised in a rural community of Cedar Crossing, Georgia. He is a Christian, country comedian. He has charted several albums with his latest titled "Hillbilly Hitch'd". Gary has had five other albums to moderate success.
He is a graduate of Toombs Central High School and attended Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia. Gary dropped out of college to pursue a job. He experienced hard times growing up due to his illiterate father and his mother was always stricken with poor health dying at an early age.
There seemed to never be any money in the family. There was always laughter while joking with others about how poor they really were. Gary worked at different professions, one in which he was an on the road sporting goods salesman. He also owned his own landscaping business which turned into his big break of venturing out and running his family green plant business. For the first time in his life, he made a better than average income. This led to his discovery in becoming a national entertainer, traveling the country and telling his story under the stage name of The Mouth of the South. Gary is a born again Christian. He prides himself on never telling a story that he could not tell in church.
In the late 1990's, he began to find his nitch while touring and entertaining in over 200 shows a year across the United States. He has recorded six albums, had his own television show, several radio shows, has written and produced advertisements, and has been a monthly columnist for different Christian and Country newspapers.
Gary was always inspired by the late Jerry Clower which also came from little means to making it big as a house hold name telling stories. He mainly tells stories of his upbringing in Cedar Crossing, Georgia, his memoris and exploits while frequently talking about him and his brother Carl's adventures.
Gary is the youngest of seven children. In his personal life, on May 13, 1989 he married LeAnn Oglesby who he is stilled married to and has one son, Gary Claxton, Jr.
Gary continues to tour and tell his humorous stories across the country.
External link
* [http://www.mouthofsouthgc.com Claxton's homepage]
News coverage
* [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6IwFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dDsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2768,3617138&dq=gary-claxton+mouth-of-the-south]
* [http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=266457]
* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MT&s_site=macon&p_multi=MT&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10C0B369294C3848&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]
* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MT&s_site=macon&p_multi=MT&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10783A5CCD4F0ADF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
