Ben Dorcy, Budrock “Buddy” Prewitt
“Ben Dorcy, the world’s oldest band boy, was with us this trip. We are within his radious. Ben has worked for John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Buck Owens, Hank Thompson, Ray Price, and more recently, Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, and Corey Morrow. Hes one hard-working man. I told him tonight that he was insured by the company I’ve formed, with a two-dollar deductible. He wants a fifty-dollar deductible.
We said, “Only if you pay the fifty up front. We take no chances.”
Ben said, “Okay, it sounded like a better policy.”
One time, when Ben was working in Nashville, he was walking in front of the Ryman Auditorium wearing a Nudie suite given to him by Hank Thompson. Somebody thought Ben was a star, and came up to him and said, “How do you get started in this business?”
Ben said, “There ain’t but one way, hoss. You start at the bottom and go right to the top. Don’t mess with that in-between-shit.”
The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes
by Willie Nelson
