Hugh Waddell's twenty-five-year career in the music business includes stints as a drummer, road manager, producer, music video show host, syndicated radio DJ, songwriter, stage manager, and record label publicist. The Cash and Waddell families have been connected for more than thirty years, and Waddell spent eight years with Johnny Cash a publicist, logistics manager, personal aide, and part-time drummer. In addition to working with the NFL's Tennessee Titans media relations department, he divides his time between a home in Joelton, Tennessee, and a house on the Buffalo River in Perry County, Tennessee.