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Happy Birthday to a excellent singer/songwriter
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05/28/20 04:28 PM
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Named after actor Gary Cooper, Stewart was born in the Letcher County, Kentucky, town of Jenkins, the son of George and Georgia Stewart. In 1959 his father, a coal miner, sustained an injury while working in the mines, and shortly afterwards the family moved to Fort Pierce, a city on Florida's Atlantic coast.[3] Learning guitar and piano, Stewart began touring with local bands and writing songs in his teens. He married Mary Lou Taylor, who was more than three years his senior, at age seventeen and began working days in an airplane factory. He still played in rock and country bands at night. While playing in an Okeechobee, Florida, honky-tonk known as the Wagon Wheel, Stewart met country singer Mel Tillis, who advised Stewart to travel to Nashville to pitch his songs. He recorded a few songs for the small Cory label in 1964 and began co-writing songs with local policeman Bill Eldridge. Stewart and Eldridge wrote Stonewall Jackson's 1965 country hit, "Poor Red Georgia Dirt". Signed to the Kapp label in 1968, Stewart made several unsuccessful recordings but several songwriting successes followed, for artists like Billy Walker ("She Goes Walking Through My Mind", "Traces of a Woman", "It's Time to Love Her"), Cal Smith ("You Can't Housebreak a Tomcat", "It Takes Me All Night Long"), and Nat Stuckey ("Sweet Thang And Cisco"). He even played piano for a time in Charley Pride's band the Pridesmen, and can be heard on Pride's live In Person double-album. Disappointed with Music Row, however, he soon returned to Florida and resumed playing countrified rock 'n' roll in local clubs and bars.[4] He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound December 16th, 2003. Just weeks after his wife passed away.
Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2 (R-TX)
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Re: Happy Birthday to a excellent singer/songwriter
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05/28/20 04:45 PM
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NORML as can be
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"Charley Pride's band the Pridesmen" that's interesting.
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Re: Happy Birthday to a excellent singer/songwriter
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05/28/20 05:05 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Happy Birthday to a excellent singer/songwriter
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05/28/20 05:07 PM
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Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Happy Birthday to a excellent singer/songwriter
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05/28/20 11:01 PM
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His greatest hits cd is in my truck. One of my favorite honky tonk singers.
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05/28/20 11:14 PM
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His greatest hits cd is in my truck. One of my favorite honky tonk singers. I've got 8 or 9 of his albums on 5 CD's "Gary", Cactus and A Rose,Steppin' out and Little Junior. Out of Hand and Your Place or Mine.I
Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2 (R-TX)
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05/28/20 11:16 PM
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One of the best!
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King of the honky tonks!
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Funny thing about getting older: Your eyesight starts getting weaker but your ability to see through people's BS gets much better.
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05/29/20 10:50 AM
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His greatest hits cd is in my truck. One of my favorite honky tonk singers. That CD has been stuck in the player of my 92 Chevy for years.
Never been to a camping world. I prefer Dick's to be honest.
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05/29/20 11:39 AM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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