Although Lawson charted two more singles during his tenure on this label, his album for Equity (titled Big Yee-Haw) was not released.

Lawson was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky into a family of amateur musicians, all of whom frequently played sessions at home.

He later moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he attended college and joined a blues group called Top Hat, in which he played lead guitar and sang.

[1] Later, he moved on to playing as a solo acoustic act, eventually joining a bluegrass band named the Galoots.

Soon, Lawson began writing songs for the band, with his material eventually landing him a deal with a publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee.