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Lester, who weighs in at 198 pounds today, is here to pitch Racing Legacy, a faith-based NASCAR drama he wrote. Aside from a few specks of gray, he has a privileged head of hair — full on top, tight on the sides, and spiked in front. He called me friend, and like friends we often disagreed on worldly stuff, but never on music. Ralph never felt that he played bluegrass music. There was Roy Lee Centers who sounded so much like Carter Stanley that Ralph once said he had known about Roy Lee and considered him when Carter died. What happens to a man who loses more than half of himself. He felt that such things would quickly pass, but asked if I had an opinion as to how something like that could happen at all. The list most frequently had other folks in it like Janis Joplin, John Duffey, Ray Charles, Hazel Dickens, and George Jones. He was, as I am, an old-fashioned, conservative Democrat. As a kid, Lester was fascinated with baseball and explosives — one of his favorite pastimes was assembling a model toy car and then blowing it up with an M-80. Lester was raised in a trailer park in Kennesaw, Georgia, a city that became infamous when it introduced a law requiring its citizens to own guns. In fact, IMO The Bass Player is how I regard him. Being on the road with the person who had caused me to love music was truly a dream-come-true. He was the only one of the top five that never changed in my mind. I loved that and still think of his music that way. Lester is nearly unrecognizable in his new body. The version of the Clinch Mountain Boys that I was in still makes me feel like the luckiest man in the world. He and (Curly) Ray would often join in long discussions about politics, and I loved being a fly-on-the-wall. Now living in Dallas nearly 15 years after his glory days, he is left to ponder whether choosing life was the right decision.
Ralph campaigned (and seemed to enjoy it) for Democrats at the local level. Lester had six inches of skin removed from each side of his face after losing the weight. Like his friend, Bill Monroe, he was always easier with conversations about things not-music. I could not ever find a way to adequately show him my enduring appreciation. They would argue over who the greatest man was between Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. When he moved to Hollywood — a town where funny fat guys can become millionaires — he was an overnight success. Since he realized in the third grade that his massive girth could draw laughs, Lester knew his fate was as the funny fat guy. There was one problem, though: His moneymaker was slowly killing him. We too were life-long friends, and I was honored to help preside at his funeral. 1. Once she departs, he sits on the front grill of a Jeep to rest his feet. Curly was a former miner who had Black Lung, had been in the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, and who felt (as I did) that being a Clinch Mt. And he keeps the business cards that feature before-and-after photos at the ready. He was in relatively good health then and pretty much at the zenith of his well-deserved fame which came late-in-life. Boy was the epitome of being in the music business. A shrinking man with loose skin greeted casting directors expecting the funny fat guy, and Lester struggled to score roles post-op. Working with Ralph was for me like it must have been for other musicians who got to work with Elvis or Buddy Holly or Jerry Lee (who we once opened for). Ron Lester has searched for the answer since December 2000, when he underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery with a duodenal switch. But time and energy restrict me from telling the great character and charity of this wonderful fellow horseman, George. The actor better known as Billy Bob, the morbidly obese offensive lineman in the 1999 hit movie Varsity Blues, is wandering the floor of the Dallas Fort Worth Auto Show promoting a movie that might never get made.
