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A new beginning

January 2, 2013 in /by

Well its 2013, the world did not end as predicted. So I guess that means we must continue to earn money, pay bills, meet our responsibilities or someone will come and take us away. Well not maybe us, but our stuff that we have borrowed from others through all those plastic moneymakers in our pockets. […]

Why can’t I button this?

December 26, 2012 in /by

As I took the pocketknife from my blue jean pocket, I opened it to the punch and began digging another hole in my leather belt. It is was easy to see that the Thanksgiving and Christmas season provided me a gift beyond measure, at least the measure of what my waist once was.

“Let’s Live Every Day Like It Was Christmas”

December 19, 2012 in /by

It was just over 20 years ago when two-time Dove Award nominee Mark Wheeler of the Marksmen Quartet and I created a Christmas song beckoning listeners to do just that – “Let’s Live Every Day Like It Was Christmas.” Millions around the world have heard songs or tunes I penned for radio, movies or television […]

Dallas can never be the same

December 12, 2012 in /by

Like many people around the world, I was saddened by the news just after Thanksgiving that someone who had caught the fascination of 300 million people in my youth had ended his adventure on this earth. I too wondered for a summer “Who Shot J.R.?”

A night at Everett’s

December 5, 2012 in /by

I recently was perusing in a used book store and I ran across a book now out of print that I have been trying to find for a while. It is called the “Country Music Book of Lists.” Several years ago I provided a list of funny happenings for the book that featured a variety […]

Christmas Times’ A Comin’

November 28, 2012 in /by

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. There was a time in my memory when I hoped I might never hear those words sang again. It was just over 20 years ago and I was in the midst of trying to complete the musical orchestration of a special Christmas CD. Alan Autry and Carroll O’Connor had asked […]

A Southern gospel hall of fame event

November 14, 2012 in /by

A few weeks ago I was privileged to attend the Singing News Fan Awards along with the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductions at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. The streets of Dollywood were lined with fans as the musical stars of the genre walked the red carpet to cheers and flashing cameras. They […]

Suffer no foolishness

November 7, 2012 in /by

Do you ever find yourself looking around wondering what happened to the world around you? The lenses through which you have looked at life become skewed by some new information you learn, the action of another, or simply a mistake that you have made yourself.

The Marksmen – “This Is My Crowd”

October 31, 2012 in /by

Throughout my career in music, one of my favorite acts to hear, watch on stage and to know has been the Marksmen Quartet of Murrayville, Ga. I was part of the group for several years in the 1980s and continue to aid them with promoting their weekly tours in venues around the country. That experience […]