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Ninety Mile Wind

Ninety Mile Wind

http://ninetymilewind.blogspot.com/

An "inside" blog written by hit songwriter Craig Bickhardt who has had his songs recorded by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Art Garfunkel, Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, Waylon Jennings, David Wilcox, Poco and may other artists.

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  • The Bear

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 11:15

    The big Boeing 737 whined into the blue carrying a stocky man in a twill coat. His beard was neatly trimmed. On his lap sat a hunk of greenish rock. No one had objected to him bringing it onboard the plane because this was back in the days before ter...

  • The Stone Barn; a Reminiscence

    Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 08:20 in influences

    "Music from Big Pink" was an inauspicious LP, selling only moderately to some Dylan fans who hadn't deserted him after Newport. The group of musicians that made the LP didn't have a name. They were simply refered to in some villifying reviews as "the...

  • Cold Eye, Warm Heart

    Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 10:15 in Lyrics, Emotion, sentimentality, song craft

    A procession of ants invaded our kitchen not long ago. We sprayed, we cleaned, and the ants retreated. They were back a few days later following a slightly different path. It has been a month now and we've conceded that maybe these ants are smarter ...

  • Stirring the Imagination

    Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 10:30 in Culture, imagination, story songs, songwriting history

    I arrived in Nashville to write songs for the first time on the day that Marty Robbins died. It was December 8, 1982. The timing of my arrival seemed uncanny to me because Marty was one of my biggest boyhood heroes. How this came...

  • Country Dignity

    Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 10:24 in Culture, Lyrics, nashville, criticism, character, country radio, music row, commercial music, song craft

    Where are the real people in country songs? Where have they gone? There's dignity in country people. Yes, they have trucks and muddy jeans out there, although most Music Row songwriters apparently never leave their condos long enough to see for the...

  • A Blissful Surrender

    Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 09:28 in inspiration, writing process, great songs

    Do you want to write songs, or do you need to write them?If writing great songs were only as simple as wanting to do it, we'd all have dozens of them. It requires more commitment than that. If you're blown away by a song you hear or a book you read...

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5 stars Zensuit

Extraordinary work, articulate and kind

Posted: March 27th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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