Introduction

Mae Axton was an English teacher who had a sideline as a freelance journalist. One day she was asked by a magazine to write a story about hillbilly music. She went to Nashville and met Minnie Pearl, the co-owner of Acre-Fros Publishing. Pearl told her that Mae, who had never written a song in her life, was a songwriter. And so, all of a sudden, Mae Axton was a songwriters,. Eventually wrote over 200 songs, starting with her early collaborations with Dub Dickerson. The first thing RCA did was to reissue his last Sun single. I forgot to remember to forget, backed with mystery train.