Gary Claxton

Who is Gary Claxton?

Gary J. Claxton aka The Mouth of the South born on November 21, 1966 in Savannah, Georgia. He was raised in a rural community of Cedar Crossing, Georgia. He is a Christian, country comedian. He has charted several albums with his latest titled Hillbilly Hitch'd. Gary has had five other albums to moderate success.

He is a graduate of Toombs Central High School and attended Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Georgia. Gary dropped out of college to pursue a job. He experienced hard times growing up due to his illiterate father and his mother was always stricken with poor health dying at an early age.

There seemed to never be any money in the family. There was always laughter while joking with others about how poor they really were. Gary worked at different professions, one in which he was an on the road sporting goods salesman. He also owned his own landscaping business which turned into his big break of venturing out and running his family green plant business. For the first time in his life, he made a better than average income. This led to his discovery in becoming a national entertainer, traveling the country and telling his story under the stage name of The Mouth of the South. Gary is a born again Christian. He prides himself on never telling a story that he could not tell in church.