Freddy Powers

It can easily be said that country singer/songwriter Freddy Powers has some friends who are much more famous than he is. In fact, one could structure an entire country record collection around Powers' powerful pals Merle Haggard, George Jones, and Willie Nelson. Like the latter country icon, Powers was raised in Texas and got his musical training playing with his family's band in West Texas honky tonks. In Fort Worth, he started working with Paul Buskirk, who would become a lifelong friend of Powers as well as another of Nelson's close collaborators. It was Buskirk, in fact, w...