Haskell Burl Watson was born July 10, 1953, in
Tyler, Texas, and raised in
La Porte, Texas. His nickname "B. B." stood for "Bad Boy". Watson spent his teenage and young adult years working as a musician throughout Texas before moving to
Nashville, Tennessee, in 1991 to begin a music career. That same year, he was the first act signed to
BNA Records, then a new label division of
RCA Records Nashville. His debut single "Light at the End of the Tunnel" was the label's first charted single, entering
Billboard Hot Country Songs in mid-1991. The song peaked at number 23 that year. Another single, "Lover Not a Fighter", peaked at number 43. Both songs were included on his only BNA album, also titled
Light at the End of the Tunnel. Michael McCall of
Country Music magazine praised the album's
honky-tonk sound and Watson's "big voice". His only other release was 2001's
Delta Dream, which charted the single "The Memory Is the Last Thing to Go" that year. ==Discography==