Someone told me a couple of years ago that the term The Famous Don Herrons sounds like the name of a Motown group or something, and I suppose it does. But there are about five of us Don Herrons who eat up most of the hits on Google, and on occasion someone comes to me as honcho of donherron.com looking for one of the other Dons. Let’s try to clear up some of the confusion. . . .

Years before I got on the internet — yes, even before the internet was invented by Al Gore or Others — I knew I wasn’t the first Don Herron on the planet. When I was just a teenager in Tennessee, the Canadian comedian Don Harron — sometimes incorrectly spelled as “Herron” — was achieving prominence as a regular on Hee Haw. This Don also comes in for some of the hits on ABEbooks if you’re trying to track down some of my titles, since he also writes books. (The easy way to tell us apart in the book department is that all of this Don’s literary work seems to have been published under his penname “Charlie Farquharson” — and I think this Don is the same Don who wrote The Sarim, but maybe not. Updates welcome.) To reach Don Harron, try his booking agent.

The next Don Herron I became aware of surfaced just as I was starting up the Hammett tour in 1977 and he was getting press for the series of photos collectively titled Tub Shots. Both of us were in San Francisco at that moment in time, but around 1979 this Don — photographer, artist — headed off for New York, where he has made our name quite famous in many circles. If you pop on IMDb you’ll see that they have under one name/person that Don Herron listed for his appearance in the documentary “Superstar in a Housedress” and me for being a talking head in a documentary about the first Conan movie.

If The Famous Don Herrons were in fact a musical act, we could use fiddle, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo and dobro player Don Herron in the group, I am sure. This Don has sat in with Dylan, Hank the Third, and many other musicians, and is a regular member of BR549. If you need to contact him, hit the BR549 website.

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