Jimmy Lee Day

I spent many enjoyable late nights around a campfire behind the late Charles Balkcom's house on the Altamaha River Bank listening to the late Sam Hart, Pete Brown and Jimmy Day (the big Three) spin yarns that would have made the great Jerry Clower (the Mississippi Mouth) proud.
Jimmy's "the cat-squirrel that jumped the Hoopee River" and "the 82 year-old man that ran a triple marathon" would make a dead man sit up and laugh. When Jimmy leaned back in his chair, crossed his legs, and lit a cigarette, the truth was in mortal danger, and it was always funny.

God speed Jimmy. You had a tremendous ability to make us laugh.

Ronnie McCall (aka Michael O'Casey, The Journal Sentinel)
Reidsville, Ga