Country Pop Bites: Clay Walker – August 31

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 1994 Clay Walker earned his first platinum album with his self-titled debut?

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Here are 5 interesting facts about Clay Walker.

• His full name is actually Ernest Clayton "Clay" Walker, Jr.
• His father gave him his first guitar when he was nine years old.
• He started entering talent competitions at age fifteen.
• After leaving his shift as nighttime desk clerk at a Super 8 Motel, he stopped at a local radio station to deliver a tape of a song that he had written. Although the morning disc jockey told him that the station's policies prohibited playing self-submitted tapes, he played Walker's song and said that it was "too good to pass up."
• After graduating from Vidor High School in 1986, he began working at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plant.