She worked with Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Tanya Tucker, Johnny Tillotson, and Blake Shelton.

In 1983, Mae discovered a young Tiffany Darwish singing country songs at the Palomino Club in Los Angeles.

Mae brought the singer to Nashville, and soon afterwards Tiffany would set a record for the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with a debut album.

[5] Durden presented the idea to Mae Axton from a newspaper article he had read in which criminal and painter Alvin Krolik said, "This is the story of a person who walked a lonely street.

"[7] It was Boren who suggested there be a Heartbreak Hotel at the end of the man's lonely street, thus creating Elvis' first #1 record and one of the greatest rock and roll hits.

[8] Mae died on April 9, 1997, aged 82, after drowning in her hot tub at her home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, after a heart attack.