William "Flash" Gordon came to Nashville in the early '70s. He was not too long back from a short "Vacation" in Vietnam. He had left a broke down marriage and more than a few broken hearts back home in Miami, Florida. He worked the road out of Nashville with Buzz Rabin, David Allan Coe, Jan Howard, Justin Tubb, Bobby Lewis, Charlie Walker and many others over the next fifteen years. At times he played behind Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe.