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One Mic: The Ballad of Lester Crow
I wrote this after listening to some ghost stories and also songs by The Charlie Daniels Band like “Devil Went Down to Georgia” and “The Legend of Wooly…
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Blueberries
One morning years ago I walked across my two acres of nice flat yard on a hot-and-humid(tm) Alabama summer day to pick blueberries from the bushes that…
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My Lust Never Quits
Music is fun but writing pays the bills.
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My Lust Never Quits
Music is fun but writing pays the bills.
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One Mic: If I Were Johnny Cash
I wrote this a couple of years ago as both a tribute (big fan) as well as just wondering what kind of song I might write if I were JC.This Substack is…
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One Mic: Housewife Whorehouse
As we say in North Alabama: Be good, or be good at it.
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One Mic: Sweet Jane Revisited
This is to emphasize and track lyric writing and serve as some sort of repo for my fiction, poetry, and music for interested subscribers.
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Fiction and nonfiction. Sometimes both. Sometimes neither.
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