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I am a big kid at heart. I got married at the age of eighteen. Also, had a son at the age of eighteen. It was a busy year. Growing up, my siblings, were older than me. ( They…
Read moreNov 24 2023
https://jimmccarter.com/track/3606203/trusty-sidekick
I am a big kid at heart. I got married at the age of eighteen. Also, had a son at the age of eighteen. It was a busy year. Growing up, my siblings, were older than me. ( They…
Read moreNov 24 2023
I used to have a band, back in the day. It had a very catchy name. The Jim McCarter band. Yeah, that isn't original at all. Why did I pick that as a name? Honestly, I had a couple reasons…
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I heard a story about a school that was in a bad economic part of town. All of the children were on free lunches and all of the students received food to take home on the weekend. (so they would…
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I have been a member of NSAI for a long time. I send in my songs to get them evaluated. Maybe you have never seen a song evalation before. I am going to share mine from a song I wrote…
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Are you a Taylor Swift fan or a Travis Kelce fan? Or both? Two people from two different worlds. Taylor is a pop star with her loyal following of Swifties. Travis is a two time Super bowl champion with the…
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Thirty- six years. (Almost) That is how long I have been working at Dillons grocery store. Back when I started with Dillons it was a Kansas company. Now, it is part of a bigger company, Kroger. Being part of a…
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A combo pizza songwriting lesson
This lesson is like a combo pizza. It has meat, veggies, sauce and it is all thrown together. The reason I typed it up is because we are known to have computer, website, audio and…
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I heard Bob Dylan talking in an interview the other day of social media. Somebody was asking him about some of his older songs. They were commenting on how great the lyrics were. Bob agreed and then quoted the lyrics…
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Friday morning, I got up early and started getting ready to go to the Kansas Prairie Picker's bluegrass festival by Holton. I decided to update my notebook with some new songs that I had written. I placed about twenty songs…
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The middle is the long part of the story. It covers about thirty years. I will give a Reader's Digest version of the story. (Some reader may not be familiar with what Reader's digest is) It was a magazine that…
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There is always a story to tell and usually there are many stories that blend together to make up a story. Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. So I'll go ahead and start this at the…
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A Hand to Guide Me is the title to a Denzel Washington book. I picked it up at the library today. So far, it has been a great read. Denzel talks about three people that made a difference in his…
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