A Hit With a Bullet: 30 Years After Infamous Murder on Music Row, Sole Survivor; Country Artist Sammy Sadler Shares Story

Indigo River Publishing to Release Autobiographical Mystery-Thriller, "A Hit with a Bullet" on May 21

Former top-40 Country artist and survivor of the infamous "Murder on Music Row," Sammy Sadler is officially returning to the entertainment fold in the same way that he left--with a bullet. On Tuesday, May 21, Indigo River Publishing will release "A HIT WITH A BULLET," Sadler's long-awaited, first-hand account of his nearly-fatal shooting in the March 9,1989 assassination of Cash Box chart director, Kevin Hughes, and the career-throttling 13-year investigation that ensued.

The autobiographical mystery-thriller, which took over 10 years to complete, chronicles Sadler's remarkable journey from wide-eyed Country music newcomer whose latest single had been marked with a bullet (indicating its fast climb up the chart), to being placed "under suspicion" for a murder that would capture international headlines, including "Entertainment Tonight," "Nancy Grace, "Unsolved Mysteries," in the decade that followed.

Sadler recounts his struggle to overcome debilitating injuries (both physical and mental) as homicide detectives Pat Postiglione (now the star of Investigation Discovery's "Total Redemption") and Bill Pridemore follow various leads, and the hardship of reconciling his passion for Country music and a desire to rebuild his career when their investigation reveals a darker side of Nashville's music industry--one wrought with greed, corruption, payola and murder.
The book, which features a foreword by former Country Weekly editor, Larry Holden,will be available in paperback for $19.95 beginning May 21 via Amazon.com, Indigo River Publishing, and through Sadler's website at www.sammysadler.com.

About Sammy Sadler:
In 1989, critically-acclaimed Country newcomer, Sammy Sadler, had already charted several successful singles and was ready to release his first album on Evergreen Records when he was caught up in the assassination of then Cash Box chart-manager,Kevin Hughes, and a payola scandal that would bring down the magazine and rock the music industry.

Vindicated, in 2004, Sadler rebooted his career, releasing Hard On A Heart (Tri label), yielding a top-10 single on the Texas charts and topping the charts in Europe for multiple weeks. In 2009, Heart Shaped Like Texas(Audium) produced rave reviews for the two lead singles, “I’ll Always Have Denver,” featuring Steve Wariner and “No Place to Land,” but the label was in transition, selling to Koch and then to E1, which ultimately shuttered leaving Sadler’s promising album shelved once again.

Still determined to pursue his dream, in 2012, Sammy launched the hugely successful “Taking the Country Back Tour” package with Jeff Carson, Ken Mellons, and others. The tour yielded over 200 dates through 2016.