Reed and Russell Walters
Russell and Reed Walters were born in Pascagoula, MS. They received their first guitars one Christmas and began taking guitar lessons at church. Terry Long, youth director at Helena Baptist Church gave them their first guitar lessons. The first music they learned was a Johnny Cash lick heard in his famous song “Folsom Prison Blues.” The boys drove their mother crazy plucking that lick until finally they began learning complete songs.
Reed was so excited about his first song, “My Darling Clementine” that he called his daddy at work and played it to him. As the duo improved, they
began to write their own music. Reed’s first hit song came in 1995 not long after the O.J. Simpson verdict. The song “No Justice in America Today” made it to local stations in MS. In 1996 Russell helped lead the Mississippi State Bulldogs to the Final Four where they lost to Syracuse in the semi-finals. Shortly after that, Reed began producing a country CD sang by Russell entitled “Big Country.” In the days before the Final Four local stations played Russell’s song from the CD, “Low as a Snake”, a catchy tune about an oil field worker who struggles to keep his family together. “Big Country” did well in Mississippi and Reed began working on some of his lighter music. One of those songs, “I Used to Mow for Elvis”, struck a chord with locals and made it to several stations throughout the state. In 2002 Reed scored his
biggest hit “Walmart High School”, a song written about a school destroyed by a tornado. The student’s had to finish the year in an old abandoned Walmart building. The song was played all over the state and was featured on Paul Harvey News and Comment.
Now Reed and Russell have teamed up once again to bring their unique style of gospel music into a CD entitled “Pouring Rain.”
The songs featured on this CD have been written over a ten year period telling stories of how God pulled them through the trials of life.
It’s their hope that their songs can move the listeners through similar trials and bring them to deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ and the rest found in Him.
Russell and Reed Walters were born in Pascagoula, MS. They received their first guitars one Christmas and began taking guitar lessons at church. Terry Long, youth director at Helena Baptist Church gave them their first guitar lessons. The first music they learned was a Johnny Cash lick heard in his famous song “Folsom Prison Blues.” The boys drove their mother crazy plucking that lick until finally they began learning complete songs.
Reed was so excited about his first song, “My Darling Clementine” that he called his daddy at work and played it to him. As the duo improved, they
began to write their own music. Reed’s first hit song came in 1995 not long after the O.J. Simpson verdict. The song “No Justice in America Today” made it to local stations in MS. In 1996 Russell helped lead the Mississippi State Bulldogs to the Final Four where they lost to Syracuse in the semi-finals. Shortly after that, Reed began producing a country CD sang by Russell entitled “Big Country.” In the days before the Final Four local stations played Russell’s song from the CD, “Low as a Snake”, a catchy tune about an oil field worker who struggles to keep his family together. “Big Country” did well in Mississippi and Reed began working on some of his lighter music. One of those songs, “I Used to Mow for Elvis”, struck a chord with locals and made it to several stations throughout the state. In 2002 Reed scored his
biggest hit “Walmart High School”, a song written about a school destroyed by a tornado. The student’s had to finish the year in an old abandoned Walmart building. The song was played all over the state and was featured on Paul Harvey News and Comment.
Now Reed and Russell have teamed up once again to bring their unique style of gospel music into a CD entitled “Pouring Rain.”
The songs featured on this CD have been written over a ten year period telling stories of how God pulled them through the trials of life.
It’s their hope that their songs can move the listeners through similar trials and bring them to deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ and the rest found in Him.