Steve was instrumental in helping The Ozark Mountain Daredevils get their start.  He co-owned the New Bijou Theater night club in Springfield where the Daredevils first formed.  He recorded their first demo and personally took it to New York City to shop it to record companies.  Through sheer persistence Steve was able to get the legendary John Hammond Sr. to listen to it, which resulted in the Daredevils getting a recording contract.

John Dillon explained, "At some point Steve found himself in New York City and decided to see if he could get into John Hammond Sr.'s office to play our tape.  The story goes that he rode up the elevator without an appointment, and went up to Mr. Hammond's secretary and said 'I have a tape to play for Mr. Hammond.'  His assistant said 'No way will he see you.'  But he did and Steve went in a played our tape.  And when "Black Sky," by Cash, came on, Hammond, who had never turned around from reading the paper, put the paper down and turned around.  Any other given day, any other given moment, John Hammond would not have seen Steve.  It was the right moment for him".

Steve was road manager for the Daredevils for a while, and played in the band for years.  Songs he wrote for the Daredevils include: "Back Roads" & "Horsetrader" which appeared on their albums, Don't Look Now (1977), It's Alive (1978), Modern History (1989).

Steve moved to Nashville in 1990 and tour managed for Shennandoah, Tammy Wynette, Wade Hays, Lee Roy Parnell, and Marshall Chapman. 

Tragically, Steve died in 1999, at the age of 55, in a small plane crash in Nashville Tennessee.