Ray,

I could have used modern songs as an example, but you wouldn't have known them smile

"Bill Monroe for Breakfast" is a great Tom T. Hall tune. "The Baptism of Jesse Taylor" was written by Dallas Frazier and was a hit for Johnny Russell.

I got to play with Merle Kilgore, he wrote "Ring of Fire" with June Carter. Coincidentally, I also played with Don Wayne. He wrote Saginaw Michigan and Country Bumpkin. I've got a number chart of Saginaw Michigan with Mr. Wayne's autograph. "Wolverton Mountain" sung by Claude King, was, also coincidentally, co-written by Mr. King and Merle Kilgore. What do you have against Merle Kilgore? smile

I would hardly call Dierks Bentley's "Feel That Fire" which he wrote with the Warren Brothers, "bubbly." Kenny Chesney's "Down That Road" certainly isn't "bubbly," it was written by the great Mac Macanally, and I give Kenny a lot credit for doing the duet with him. No, not George Strait's "River of Love" or John Rich's "Shuttin' Down Detroit." They're not as bubbly as "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" or "It's Such a Pretty World Today" or "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A" which, I apologize to my boss Donna Fargo, is pretty darn bubbly.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

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