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Ninety Mile Wind
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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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Stirring the Imagination
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...
Van Ronk's Last Cigar and Other Fables
Dave Van Ronk's last cigar is now just a small circle of ashes scattered around a bush in the middle of a park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. That's where songwriter David Massengill smoked it after holding onto it for a couple of years. Van Ronk gave ...
