Last month, Jimmy Wayne crossed into Texas on his 1,700-mile Meet Me Halfway walk across America. While in the Lonestar State, he met a group of Texans who took the singer in for multiple nights, giving Wayne their own beds while they slept on the floor each night.
On his final night in Wheeler, Texas, while staying with Clint Devoll and his roommate, Josh Jackson, Wayne was asked a question he gets a lot when he’s taken into a stranger’s home – to sing them a song.
"Clint asks me to play a song on his guitar," said Wayne. "I started strumming it, but it was out of tune and the action was too high. It was terrible! It felt like I was playing a Dobro. I said, 'You need to sand this bridge down. I can do it for you if you want.' So I take his only guitar -- his pride and joy -- and take it apart to sand the bridge down. Needless to say, I broke it. He's looking at me with this look, smiling halfway. I'm thinking, 'Oh crap, I broke this dude's guitar!' I know what it would mean to me if someone broke my guitar. In my mind I'm thinking any minute now I'm going to hear, 'Oh, that's alright, Jimmy' ... Pow! Right in the mouth!"
Wayne quickly placed a phone call to make things right. "So I immediately got on the phone and called my good friend at Takamine Guitars, who endorse me. He said they were sending him a nice Takamine to replace the one I busted, which Clint didn't know about until it arrived at his house a couple of weeks later."
Wayne returns to his walk this weekend after taking a week off to regroup. The singer has roughly 630 miles left on his walk until he reaches Phoenix.
For more information on Meet Me Halfway, visit http://meetmehalfway.jimmywayne.com/.
Source: TheBoot.com
