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Jun 13 2022

A song for Kansas City Chief's fans 

     I wrote a song about the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahommes and how we all want to be winners like them. It is called Me.

ME 

 

Watching TV, wearing jersey fifteen 

cheering for Mahommes, and the…

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Jun 12 2022

The corner of opportunity and preparation

     Yesterday, I went to the Bluegrass Festival at Prairie Lake. It is a small lake a couple miles from Holton, KS. I have been going to this event for years. On Saturday afternoon they had an open mic for bluegrass…

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Jun 6 2022

Fastballs

      Here is a lyric I wrote in the last week or two. It is saved in the notes of my phone. It might never be nothing, it might become a song, or never ever be looked at again. I hadn't…

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Apr 18 2022

Be a Cowboy 

     I was talking to my friend, Fletcher, who I write with. He told me that he heard that George Strait was looking for songs for a new album. That started me to think, If I was George Strait what would…

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Mar 26 2022

How to get a publishing deal (my guess) 

     Five years ago, I shared my story about sending my songs to songwriting publishing companies. I was full of hope. I made a list of major and minor publishing companies. I think I had seventeen publishing companies I contacted asking…

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Feb 25 2022

Dee Jay in Tupelo 

    Yesterday, I sent a text to Miss 98. No, that isn't a contestant in a beauty pageant. It is a radio station in Tupelo, Mississippi. My friend, Bill Miles and I wrote a song called Radio. It has a line…

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Feb 14 2022

Solitude

    Solitude. That is a big word for a guy from Oskaloosa, KS. I thought I knew what it meant but I looked it up in the dictionary to make sure I was right before typing this. Solitude is the state…

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Feb 10 2022

Top songs 2021 

   This song is one of my favorites that I wrote last year. I like it when a song is about somebody. It makes a song easier to write when you know that. If you have a line, it rhymes, but…

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Feb 9 2022

Tops songs from 2021 

    I had five songs that got a Songwriter to Watch award at NSAI. I am going to share all of them. I thought I would start with Hello Moon. Have you ever read the book, Hello Moon, Hello Stars to…

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Feb 8 2022

More 2021 songwriting updates

   I wanted to share a list of the songs that received Songwriters to Watch awards. Here is the list.

Three minute song

Promises

Couldn't get enough

Shades of Gray

Hello Moon.

     I wrote two…

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Feb 7 2022

2021 updates continued

   My quantity of songs went up in 2021. Sometimes if you're not careful you write more songs but the quality of the songs goes down. That was a fear of mine. Anyone can write fifty songs. It is the quality…

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Feb 6 2022

Recap of 2021

    2020 was my best year in my songwriting career. This year was even better. Better is hard word to really define. No, I didn't get a #1 Country hit but I wrote more songs in 2022 than I did in…

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