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Writer Mike Jones  M&J Music
Song on this page    Who Will It Be
 
 

Mike Jones
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Bio: Mike Jones is retired and is living in Murphy NC.
Mike started writing lyrics about 3 years ago
and mostly writes Country, Blues and Gospel lyrics.
In 2014 Mike Teamed up with Jerry Jake Howard
to form M & J Music. Together they have written over 200 songs.
 

Jerry Howard
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Jerry Howard lives in Ocala Fl. A 60 year veteren as a singer-songwriter
has been playing from the age of 12 years old.

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Lonnie C. Ratliff - Okie Acres Music (BMI)
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. . . . I was raised up in Southeastern Oklahoma around Antlers, Hugo & Atoka and graduated in 1966 as 1 of 13 seniors at Moyers, Oklahoma. My roots are so deep in that area that it has influenced everything I have done in my life. I was the oldest of 7 kids in a sharecropper's family and ended up all over the state of Oklahoma wherever we could make a living. Places like Carnegie, Porter Hill, Lawton, Roff, Duncan, and Cloudy Oklahoma pretty much established a setting for the songs that would come along many years later.
. . . .I started playing music with my best buddy Ralph Spears in 1965 and I remember we would sneak into the Texoma Club on the Red River just North of Paris, Texas where Gary Dial had a band and they would overlook the fact that we were underage and let us get up and sit in with the band. I never was much of a musician but Ralph was very good and he ended up playing in the clubs in Lawton, Oklahoma and as far as I know he is still there today.
. . . . I was in and out of the music business for years and for a while I even played on a paddle wheeler called the "Cherokee Queen" on Grand Lake at Langley/Disney, Oklahoma. All during this time I was trying to write songs and not having a lot of luck until 1978 when I pulled up stakes and moved to Nashville for the first time.
. . . . I didn't know a soul in Nashville but I had worked as a bass player for Jerry Haddock in Texas and his brother Durwood Haddock was in music business in Nashville and was a pretty well known songwriter, having written the country standard "There She Goes". I guess Durwood felt sorry for me or who knows maybe he saw some talent underneath all my scribbling because he took me under his wing and showed me what I was doing wrong with my songwriting.
. . . . It was during this first stay in Nashville that I met Ron Kimbro & Jack Brown from Macomb, Illinois. They were also trying to break into the songwriting business in Nashville so we kicked around Music Row for a while until one day we got the bright idea that we should form a band and go up to Illinois and have some fun playing in the local bars. That was how the Rainbow Riders was formed and the next seven years are pretty much a drunken drug induced haze as we terrorized the midwest along with other bands like Ken Carlysle & The Cadillac Cowboys, Pork & The Havana Ducks, & Timothy P. & The Rural Route 3. It was a blast I gotta admit but eventually you have to either sober up or just lay back down in the gutter and die as old Porter Wagoner said so one day I just cleaned up my act and moved back to Nashville and I have been here ever since.
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Eric Gordon
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Coming Soon Eric Gordon New Song : Makin Memories Look for Erics Bio Soon
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Songwriters- Terry Lee Reid and Rita Reid
 
We have been a team since Dec 1966.  Our writing style comes from personal life experiences and "downhome working man" lessons.
 
Terry was born and raised in Iowa...the son of an average family in hard times.  Rita was born and raised in Oregon to a farming family.  They met and married in Oregon and lived a average long life together, through many trials.
 
Their actual writing began as an individual effort for their own amusement before they married but the joint effort only began about 2009, when Terry asked Rita to rewrite one of his songs and make it flow.  Since then they have pooled their efforts on most of their songs, rewriting, and reworking some of the older efforts as well.
 
I have raised and breed an trained cutting horses for over 30 years. My family said put your memories into songs in 1999 so today I have written over 700 song lyrics, I don't sing or play any instruments. Last year I asked for help on a song to get it recorded for my 44th anniversary and Clay Pierce in Derry, Ireland accepted and we co-wrote my first recorded song
called " Have You Ever Heard " then Joe Navarth co-wrote one called " Dancin' With Crystal Rose " then my friend Jeffrey Lambert did my next song he cowrote with me called " Cryin Inside " a tribute to my daughter who died in 1981. The next 2 songs I penned was cowrote with Deby Kelley the
1st one called " Cowboy Chasin Hell Of A Time " the 2nd one called
" Some Do The Cryin " so I have more to get Demo's on one at a time.
Terry Lee Reid

I have been married to the same lady for 45 years we have 3 sons 8 grand kids & 5 greatgrand kids we miss them all. I do genealogy also to pass the time

 
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Producer and Writer Ed Gowens
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President Echota Records

Calhoun, GA) Local songwriter Ed Gowens has had several of the songs he has written, recorded by International recording artist Donna Ray, a member of the famous Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Gowens has been writing Traditional Country and Country-Gospel songs since 1999. He has written close to 500 songs and has had around 200 songs recorded by various Independent Country and Gospel Artists from around the world.

Bill Sterling
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John E Denny Music BMI

I love country music, and love creating it in it's true traditional form. Seriously, when was the last time you were riding down the road, listening to a country station, and heard a song that put cold chills up and down your neck, You even yelled, Yes! The way the singer delivered the message you knew, like you, he had been there, and done that. It came from his Heart and soul..As long as I have a breath left in my body I will try and preserve the old traditional sounds. It's like restoring an old car. Just a labor of love..I'm not really here looking for an A/R person. I've been there and done that. Most of them are deaf anyway. lol. I know all about walking up and down 16th Avenue South, trying to pitch a song to some tin eared publishing company executive, that couldn't make a D chord on a guitar..
When I look back I think about all the fun I've had with a guitar in my hand. I've played those large package shows, played the Opry, And a lot of Honky Tonks and Dives....I've been up and down, damn near every interstate in the good ole USA. I've been shot at and missed..S*&(^ on and hit several times. .. Had more smoke blowed on me then one would care to remember..
But here I am, still having fun pickin', siinging and Writing Traditional Country Songs ....May God Bless You All ...
Bill Sterling

Donna Ray
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Echota Records
Stardust Records Recording Artist
Donna Ray

          To Know Her Is To Love Her

Donna Ray's stage appearance has the crowds clapping to the music they enjoy to hear, and that is Classic Country Music. Her performance has gifted her with the name the Sweetheart of the Louisiana Hayride. Traveling the States with the Louisiana Hayride Road Show Donna Ray enjoys singing to the people, not only is she good at her stage appearance she is good at what she has accomplished in her career.

T'onna Ray
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T'onna Ray 9 years old started singing at the early age of 5 and set out to record many songs for many writers. T'onna Ray has recorded for AR Kessinger recording Its Not Your Time Melissa as heard on this page. She has also recorded for Jim Flynn, Ed Gowens Echota Records and also has recorded with her uncle Phillip Berrigan,
 on the remake of Don't Cry Joni, T'onna recorded her first song What A Wonderful World  a Louie Armstrong song at the age of 7 and has her very first Christmas Album out with her sister Bridgit Ray 8. The girls are called The Raysinettes. Look for many other recordings of the girls soon and dont forget  she has just got started and on her way to success on many Radio Stations, also Featured on Jerry Cramers CMG Radio magazine.

Writer A>R> Kessinger
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 I was born on July 14, 1942 to Estell and Pearl Kessinger in a log cabin.  The youngest of six children we lived a very modest lifestyle in Butler County, Kentucky.
After dropping out of school in 1959 I worked in construction with no interest in education and/or writing.
In the mid 1970’s I discovered a sincere interest in writing country songs and poetry after receiving my GED in the military.
I began loosing my sight to glaucoma in 1978, which provided the time to focus on my newfound literal craft.
By the early 90’s I had aspirations to develop literature, however, my loss of sight made it difficult to use the typewriter.  During this time computer training was offered and I immediately took advantage of the opportunity.  With the use of a computer screen reading software I was able to begin development of this work.
A. R. Kessinger

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Bonnie McGill
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Bonnie McGill Bio

 

I have been writing poems and short stories since I was a little girl..I began in my teenage years adding music to the words. The songs just came to me so easily. It has been a gift from God people would tell me. I have written over 300 songs and in 2009 published my 2nd book, the last one was through www.xlibris.com. It is called Bonnie's Poems. There are eighty five songs in the book.

 

The first song I had recorded was a song I wrote about Terry Fox,It was recorded by a band named Homegrown.

The name of the song was "TERRY"

 

I recorded six more songs in London Ontario, songs I'd written and sang with Peter Brennan as producer.

These were "No Easy Way Out", " Half Wrong Half Right","Jesus Paid For It All",  "Smokey Filled Barrooms and Honkey Tonk Songs", "There's Nobody Here", "HighHeeled Shoes"

 

My husband Andy who has played guitar all his life, taught me to play a twelve string Ovation Elite Guitar, which he surprised  me with one day.. He said ,"Here you go Loretta", just like Doo did for Loretta Lynn. You gotta learn to play if you're going to keep on writing those awesome songs. It was truly a blessing..

 

My next four recordings were done at Gene Breeden Studios in Nashville.

 I wrote and sang them , "Lisa's Dream ," which now I've changed the title to "The Blue Kentucky Hill",  "I Love Loving You", "Don't Trade It All For A One Night Stand", "The Best Years After All"

 

I sent seven songs to to be recorded at Paramount Group in Nashville.

"Little Sadie Walks The Hillside", "Oil And Water", "I Said Yes", "Daddy's House", "Trying To Steal Your Heart",

"Back In Arkansas", and "A Thousand Things",

 

In 2011 Deby Kelley recorded a song I wrote called "Give Him Time", and she is putting it on her new CD. She will be recording my song "Jesus Paid For It All" on an upcoming gospel cd she is planning. She recorded Give Him Time, at ECHOTA RECORDING STUDIO in Calhoun , Georgia .. owned  and operated by Ed Gowens

 

Donna Ray also did a version of "Give Him Time", ..

When I heard The wonderful productions Echota Records was putting out, I just had to give them a call, thanks to Deby Kelley .

 

So far They have produced and recorded seven of my songs sung by Donna Ray.

 Her voice is just perfect for the traditional style of songs I write, and since there are  very touching story lines to my writing, her sincere Southern voice brings out the emotion that I so dearly want to be highlighted..

 She sings with feeling and that is an absolute must for me..

Ed Gowens also has narrated several of my poems , many of them taken from true stories , and has put background music in behind his voice which tears at the heartstrings..

 

My son Billy told me about Reverbnation, a site where you can put your music on, and in Dec, 2010 I decided to give it a try.. That literally opened up a whole new world for me where I could put my music on a site with close to two million other artists.

I am currently at #1 Local, #3 National, #24 Global, # 909 Global All Genres and have 5,800 fans and have 115,800 song play all within 11 months,

 

 My songs are currently being heard all over the world on Fishing Country Now and Cowgirl Divas Radio and several other independent artist radio stations.

  Audrey King and Tom Flaton and Deby Kelley are disc jockeys who have helped promote my music tremendously. Audrey King recorded a poem I wrote called  "My Dad Grown Old"  with my song Daddy's House" playing in the background. She has made a website for me  http://bonniemcgill.webs.com/

 I wrote a song about her called "The Oklahoma Angel."

I will be recording it soon.

 

I have won first place on www.soundchew.com three times and am in the final round this week tied at 50% at the moment.

I have one lifetime dream I am praying Ed Gowens will help me fulfill , that is to have all my songs recorded before they lay me down in a field of stone.

 

 God Bless all my family and  friends on Facebook and reverberation and at Ed Gowens Echota Records

 

  Bonnie McGill

20/11/11

 

 

 

 

 

Joel Merriman
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Private Morgan Coming Home
 
Im standing on this bridge looking over white river ((first line to one song (title) 'memories under water; some bio (arkansas native keeping country alive with trad. country songs from the heart((both sides of my family were front porch pickers (born simple grew up simple had the best parents in the world

 

 

I Ain't The Same Me

 

Words and Music

Dagostino/ Mullin

Copyright  2010

Bio on Writers Coming Soon

Monroe Mullin
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Monroe Mullin  Singer/Songwriter (BMI)

 

 

Born  Peter David Mullin June 24th 1950 in Mulhenberg Hospital in Plainfield  N.J., in the year 2000 right after the birth of his son Corey he took on the stage name of  Monroe Mullin in honor of  the late great Bill Monroe father of bluegrass music. A man dedicated to his music all his life.. I’ve record over 40 songs in Nashville and was lucky enough to be produced by the now award winning producer and songwriter Clay Mills. Who by the way is singing a lot of the songs that you hear on my Soundclick  site. I met him in Nashville and we started working together right away. He’s a great person. There are numerous great touring and session players on these songs. Marc Muller session musician,  toured with Shania Twain 10yrs. plays numerous instruments. Doug Dogan session player touring pedal steel player for James Taylor 14yrs., Reese Wyman session and touring piano player played on a lot of Brook& Dunn stuff, Joe Spivey session player renowned fiddle player to name a few. Believe it or not I didn’t touch a guitar till I was 29. But once I did a whole new word opened up for me and I ended up writing over 200 songs and counting. Don’t think I’ll stop till the day I die. I’ve been recently co- writing with Jon Dagostino a Nashville lyricist. We wrote a song “I Ain’t The Same Me” and   Donna Ray loved it and record it and did a fantastic job. I met Donna Ray through songwriter and producer Ed Gowens on soundclick. Just goes to show you how important the internet is to today in networking. Recently I was interviewed and my song “God Willin was played in rotation on WBNJ. They played it over the Christmas Holidays and called it a hit song. I got a kick out of that. They want me back after the first of the year for another interview and to go through my catalog of songs. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Not only have I recorded in Nashville but also in my home state of New Jersey with another co-writer and producer Smilin SteveClarke my good buddy unless we’re fighting. We always make up though. I know a lot of you reading this are shakin you heads I know what you mean. Egos hard to deal with some times. lol. Anyway you don’t want to hear more about me. Me is my music my heart my soul. Listen to my music cause that’s my biography. To be continued……. Thanks for listenin Monroe God Bless  

Jon Dagostino
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Writer Tim Hick Echota Records
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Writer Tim Hicks of Echota Recording Studio Calhoun Georgia has written many songs for Donna Ray to record such as Watching The World Go By and  Please Save Me. Tim has been Writing for Years and Donna Ray teamed up with Tim and The Echota Recording Studio to add Tims songs on her albums. Tim is also a Recording Tech and Co-Producer for Echota Records Studio.

jerry cramer
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Jerry Cramer is a Texas songwriter, entertainer, promoter, manager, disc jockey, publisher and a whole lot of other things when it comes to the music he loves. He wrote his first song fifty two years ago and has been involved in the music industry in one capacity or another for the past forty nine years. Over a half of a century spent writing tunes, entertaining audiences, assisting new artist and writers, while making new friends all over the world. Jerry has never changed from being the down home boy next door. He is as common as an old shoe and has never had a problem with being out front or in the background behind another writer or entertainer. Although he has a BS in Business Administration, an Associates of Arts in Marketing and another in Public Relations along with a Bible College degree he is just as down to earth as they come.

He began his career with his own garage band back in the early days of rock n roll. He moved from that scene to folk music and wore his hair long and drove a micro mini bus. He later crooned in Las Vegas the tunes of Sinatra, Bennett, Cole and others. Leaving Vegas he toured for almost two years as the only white member of an all black blues band. When that band broke up he moved to a new city and began a new career as a country music artist and has remained in that genre for the past thirty plus years. Over the years he has worked with some of the greats of country music such as his long time friend and mentor Ernie Ashworth, others have included Porter Wagoner, Del Reeves, Skeeter Davis, Lonzo and Oscar, Wilma Lee Cooper, Mel Street, Boxcar Willie, Billy Walker, Waylon Jennings, and a whole host of others, to many to list them all.

He presently is the board chairman of These organizations: The Cramer Multi Media Group, The Big Sugar Music Group, CMG Radio Enterprises, Keys 4 Success International and Jerry Cramer Enterprises. With in these organizations you will find two publishing companies, a record label, a video production company, an artist management firm, a non profit foundation to aid children in need, 105 internet radio stations, thirty five fm radio stations, a real estate development company, his own enterprises and that of Bubba Sharps Comedy and Associates.

He is always looking to help young songwriters, artist and those who wish to become a part of the music industry. He is the father of five children, the step dad of three, the grandfather of twenty one and the great grad dad of five. He believes in family values and hard work to reach your goals. He is strait forward, out spoken, a true believer in living life to its fullest and being all that you can be. He loves God, Family and Country in that order. He says he is not really a songwriter but a mere pen man that writes down the words from his heart that God gives him. He was inducted into the Independent Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1998 and has been awarded to many other awards through out his career for us to list in this limited space.

Is he headed toward retirement? No not hardly he works about 14 to 16 hours per day, six days a week and a few hours on Sundays when needed. He says he is young restless and twenty and if you were around him you would almost have to agree with that. The Cramer Multi Media Group is an ever growing social network of songwriters, recording artist, bands, film makers, composers, and musicians. CMG Radio Enterprises is on the move as well with 100 online and 25 FM stations worldwide. Jerry also seems to find the time each night Monday through Friday to be a Disc Jockey and co-host the Donna & Jerry Show on CMG Radio's parent station online. The show continues to grow with hundreds of thousands of listeners worldwide being syndicated on five hundred stations globally and hosted on one hundred online stations. He invites Indie Artists in all genres' to submit their songs for airplay within the CMG Radio network of stations.

Contact Jerry today for all the information and the latest news at CMG.

jerry@cmgradio.info

Visit his CMG Radio website where they play Indie's 24/7 with a drop down menu to all the other stations. www.cmgradio.info

Taking Control Written By Jim Flynn BMI

Writer Jim Flynn BMI
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James was born in Lewiston, Maine to Lawrence and Katherine (McIlroy) Flynn. He is the fourth of five sons. He grew up in Monmouth, Maine and Lewiston Maine, where he was a member of a high school choral group.

 Flynn's philosophy on songwriting is interesting. He believes he is a "small frog in a small pond. Flynn finds enjoyment in simply knowing people are enjoying his music. Flynn adopts some of his songs to video, that he posts to a YouTube account. On YouTube, Flynn's songs have found moderate success, being played 100,000 times, as of December 2008. Flynn's songs are played regularly by various artists on independent country stations.

Flynn enjoys writing story songs, and songs that pull the listener in. The song he personally believes is his best is titled "MegaFlight." MegaFlight discuses how it would be if it where possible to visit lost relatives and friends in heaven. The song tells the story of a man who was married to a woman that died in childbirth. In the song, the unnamed man goes to an airport to inquire about purchasing a jet ticket to heaven for him and his young child. He has also written songs in other styles, such as "The Ballard of L.L. Bean".

Awards and Achievements

Flynn is noted for his song writing ability, and has been rewarded for his achievements by many organizations. In the 2005 DECMA awards, he won first place in the "Best Folk Songwriter" category for a song called "The Ballard of L.L. Bean", and took second place in two other songwriting categories.In 2006 he wrote a song titled, "The Opening Act," a song that later became the title track to child performer Brian Wardwell's first album. At the DECMA "Legends Show", Jim was awarded a Founders Award for his efforts in behalf of the Maine country music community.

Writer Jim Flynn
 
I enjoyed recording an Album called THANKS Written by Jim, He is an amazing Writer.  We have been working together on another album soon to be released through Echota Recording Studio. Jim Your Fantastic,
 
Your dearest friend,
Donna Ray
 
Today Donna Ray has recorded 3 Albums of Jim Flynn's Songs and every one of his songs are being played throughout the World on many Internet Air Play Stations and FM Radio Stations
 
 
 
 
 

Writer Jim Flynn BMI
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Awards and Achievements

Flynn is noted for his song writing ability, and has been rewarded for his achievements by many organizations. In the 2005 DECMA awards, he won first place in the "Best Folk Songwriter" category for a song called "The Ballard of L.L. Bean", and took second place in two other songwriting categories.In 2006 he wrote a song titled, "The Opening Act," a song that later became the title track to child performer Brian Wardwell's first album. At the DECMA "Legends Show", Jim was awarded a Founders Award for his efforts in behalf of the Maine country music community.

 " KNEE SLAPPING COUNTRY MUSIC"
 
songwriters:  JIM FLYNN & RHONNIE SCHEUERMAN
 
 
Coming soon on Little Hollow Records Comp #5, a new song by the "Sweetheart of the Louisiana Hayride," Donna Ray.   The title of the song is
"Knee Slapping Country Music," written by two award winning songwriters, Rhonnie Scheuerman and Jim Flynn.  It's pure traditional country music from start to finish.  It tells the story of a girl who grew up listening to the great stars of the Grand Ole Opry, during the Opry's classic radio days.  Donna Ray is at her absolute best on this song.  The song was produced by one of independent country music's most respected producers, Ed Gowens of Echota Records.  Please look for "Knee Slapping Country Music" on Little Hollow Records Comp #5 at the end of this month or the beginning of March.   

Writer Dixon Devore
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Dixon DeVore has been writing songs since the Mayflower docked. He plays piano and writes both words & music. Was a staff writer for a major publisher in New York and wrote "special" material for NY Nightclub acts. Mr. DeVore played cocktail lounge piano for some years. He has his own publishing companies and indie record label. Has had many, many songs at the top of many Indie charts over time and has had some Billboard top #50 songs as well. He currently lives in rural New Hampshire with his wife and miniature Dachshund.

Juanita Ford
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Juanita ford was born in the town of Biddeford Maine in 1961
Adopted at the age of 4 months
From the first time she heard Tammy wynettes your god girls gonna go bad
She developed a great love for tradinaionl country music
At three years old she was diagnosed with intermittent spinal atrophy
A form of muscular dystrophy
But that has not stopped Juanita from persuing her dream.
Juanita ford is an award winning BMI country and gospel songwriter

Stated her own publishing company Juanita ford publishing in 2000

Her credits include:

Donna Ray Texas State of mind
Stevie Cee Heavens gain
Joe berry songs for his cd dark side of the moon
Roger eydenburg double Decker cheeseburger

Co-writers include
Vonee Rose
Larente Claude Jean-Jaques (
Joe beryy raymon dobson
Judith greer Edwards
Kirk comiskey
Duane wellman

Juanita Ford
Ledge View Living Center Room 226
141 Bethel Road
West Paris, Maine 04289
Phone: 207-674-2282
Email: Juanita@megalink.net

Writer Roy Cost
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Roy Cost began his recording career in 1959 with "The Shadows".  They had several regional hit 45 rpm records,  but his most popular song came in 1969 with "East Of Tulsa" getting him into the Nashville, Tennessee & on several WSM radio shows.  His most played songs of  the modern age are "The Real You".."Rockabilly Baby"..New Heartache".."Skinny Dippin'"..."Lonely Tears".."This Time".."Thunder & Lightning".. "A Red Cadillac & A Black Mustache"..."Thank You Jesus For Calling Me"...his 9/11 tribute song entitiled, "The Day The Sky Fell".."It's My Memory Thinking"..."When A Man Loves A Woman" and "The Twelfth Of Never". His "Real You" was a double number one song a few years back on 'Soundclick' in which songs are ranked from listeners all over the world.
     These days Cost  plays with "Route 66 America" . He and Dixie Harrison do a Saturday gospel show over Little Rock/Sherwood's KMTL at 760 AM on the dial.( www.KTML760AM.COM )  He is continuously writing and records his music to CD.   Last year he recorded several albums. His newest songs are "Rockabilly Girl"..."Desert Sand"..."Don't Look Behind You"..."Nashville Now"...and his and Dixie Harrison's gospel songs, "I Believe In The Bible" & "Whatcha Gonna Do My Friend". Cost does imitations & character voices of over 10 characters known as the 'Bojo Snodgrass clan' from up there in the sticks near Gravelly, Arkansas. He brags of growing up on the last road in the last county... 'sunshine in and moonshine out'!
      Cost is a former school principal, teacher & basketball coach who worked in the Mayflower, Arkansas public schools until 1984.  He is also a Vietnam veteran serving his country from 1963 through 1967.
       He is a member of the "Rockabilly Hall Of Fame" and a former "Instrumentalist Of The Year" for the Arkansas Academy Of Country Music.  He owns his own label, "Vega Records" and co-owner of "AROK Records" with Kitty Houston.  He has done duets with "Joyce Ramgatie" of Middleburg, Holland.."Kitty Houston" of "Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.." & "Gunnar Almqvist" of Sweden.
     Many artists have recorded his songs including "Kitty Houston".."Buddy Sims"..."Gunnar Almqvist"..."Keith Kuykendall"..."Bojo Snodgrass"..."Linda Harrison Cheek"..."Judy Cupit"..."Fidder Mouth"..."Alan Cost"..."Cedrick Honeycutt"..."Doss Tipton".."The Fabulous Rockabillys"..& "Cal Caukins".  Recently the very popular "Donna Ray" of "The Louisana Hayride" recorded Cost's "Our Son And Your Famous Name" asnd is on her new album, "Habits Of A Lifetime".
     You can always find information for Roy Cost at www.roycost.com  . Keep those cards and letters coming in folks.  You hear!.

Writer Gilbert Burke
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HI YA`LL: MY NAME IS GILBERT BURKE!..I`M FROM PENNSYLVANIA,AND I AM A TRADITIONAL COUNTRY/COUNTRY ROCK & POP COUNTRY SONGWRITER!.RECENTLY I GOT A PUBLISHING DEAL & SIGNED AS A STAFF SONGWRITER, ON MY SONGS, WITH A GREAT TEXAS INDIE LABEL/PUBLISHING COMPANY, "BIG SUGAR MUSIC/OPEN DOOR RECORDS", OWNED AND OPERATED BY CEO JERRY CRAMER!..BESIDES SONGWRITING, I LOVE TO HUNT, WORKOUT, GO TO FLEA MARKETS AND GO TO COUNTRY MUSIC CONCERTS, AND CMA FANFEST YEARLY, IN NASHVILLE, TN,!.I LOVE COUNTRY ARTISTS LIKE, ALAN JACKSON, LORETTA LYNN, GEORGE STRAIT, REBA, DOLLY, AND MOLD MY LIFE & MUSIC, IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS! MY HEROS ARE JESUS AND MAMA,

AND "I LOVE LIFE & PEOPLE" IN GENERAL, BOTH OF WHICH ARE INTERESTING AND UNPREDICTABLE"!..WROTE MANY A GOOD SONG, FROM THAT COMBO, FOR SURE!..THANKS FOR READING MY STORY AND HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

SINCERELY, GILBERT BURKE (SONGWRITER/BMI)

Writer Loraine Washburn
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Loraine Washburn
Born In England, and raised a Brat (Military that is) Loraine lived in England 8yrs, and Scotland for 7yrs before moving to the USA. She teaches piano and guitar, is a singer/songwriter and records demos for studios

Terry Ball
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Terry E. Ball

2021 Old Georgetown St., NW

Cleveland, TN 37312

My name is Terry E. Ball. I am 46 years old and sometimes I feel like I am 100. Other times, I feel as though I am still a teenager.

You see, when I was 28 years of age, I experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI as referred to by the medical field) in an automobile accident. At that time, I thought that I had the world by the tail. My country music career was beginning to take shape. I had written several songs and began appearing around some local nightspots with people responding favorably. I had a try-out with “Be a Star” in Nashville and was awaiting a reply at the time of my car accident.

Allow me to backup and tell you how I came to be 28 and involved in writing country music. My life had been filled with heartache, disappointments, distrust and extreme sadness. Some things, I can talk about, others I cannot. My mother and father were divorced when I was only eight years of age. This left my mother to raise six children, alone. Any recollections of my father consist of a sinking feeling and memories of abuse. You see, he was an abusive alcoholic. The divorce did not stop the abuse to my mother, some of my siblings and me. Oft times, our father would arrive in a drunken state unexpectedly usually having to be hauled away by the police. In 1978, when I was 15 my dad was tragically killed in an alcohol related car accident. Later, we realized that my father was a diabetic and the alcohol was his treatment method.

At the age of 17 I married my 16 year old sweetheart. My intentions were to be happily married to her for the rest of life. We actually grew up together and during this time I began drinking beer, smoking pot and fighting with her. When I was 22 years of age, we had our first child, a daughter. Then at age 24, our son was born. I had somewhat settled down, working 12 hour shifts at a carpet mill and then coming home to keep the children while she worked. My only recreation outside working was strumming on an old guitar that my mother had bought me at the age of 15 and writing lyrics along the way. Keith Whitley and Hank Jr were my inspiration, along with Merle.

Then my world was turned upside down again, my sweetheart and wife of nine years proved to be unfaithful with one of my old school friends and several came forth and acknowledged that this had been long term. We divorced when my daughter was five years of age and my son was only three. After that, my life really did not seem to matter. I could only express myself in music …. then history repeats itself. Like my father, I had a car accident and had to be extricated from the car, carried by LifeForce for a beginning rehabilitation for several years.

This accident has left me unable to sing due to scarring of my vocal chords from the long term tracheotomy. I am still plugging away to promote the eleven songs that I wrote, all from my heart and based on my life. My dream has always been to hear one of my songs played on the Grand Ole Opry stage. That would make it all worthwhile.

 Submitted By Terry E Ball

Writer Martha Mantooth
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Writer Martha Mantooth:
 My name is Martha Mantooth from Ruston La. I started writing back in 1959.    I kept all literature in boxes till the year of 2008. I Just released my 1st C.D. on Boundry Line thru Echota Records with producer Ed Gowens @ Tim Hicks ,Donna Ray @ Bruce Blake. I have over 200 songs written. 1st performance was at Louisiana HayRide in Arcadia La. sung by Donna Ray and Bruce Blake and Bud Christian and band.
I Want to extend from my heart a very special thanks to God himself for putting me in the hands of Ed Gowens ,Tim Hicks, Donna Ray,Bruce Blake, Bud Christian Band and all my family and friends for support and help. God Bless and Thank You All.
Thanks Gang : Martha Mantooth

On Behalf Of Ed Gowens, Tim Hicks and Echota Records  and Bruce Blake, I would like to Thank Martha for a Fantastic Song, Bruce and I had a Great Time Recording Boundary Line. You are Truly Blessed.
We all Thank You
With Love To You Our Dear Friend,
Donna Ray
 
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Writer Gary Williams
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I Walk Alone

 

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