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THE CASTLE CHRONICLES
Tall Tales & Short Stories from America's Least-Known Traveling Troubadour
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Chris Castle
Jul 24 min read
The Anonymous Bachelor Party
The night started exactly as you'd think it would. Nick and I picked up Diesel, smoked a Jeep joint en route to the bar, and pulled up...
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Chris Castle
Jul 11 min read
Perfect World
Bankers and politicians, exchanging positions Ever campaigning, man - buy, buy, buy The same men who conceived and constructed Religion...
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Chris Castle
May 233 min read
Old Man Byers' Banquet Chicken
My friend Daniel Horne used to coordinate the Artists Of the Rustbelt events in and around Youngstown, Ohio. The Womacks and I played a...
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Chris Castle
May 81 min read
Closer Than Anything
I wish you were liquid So that way I could Absorb you into my skin Closer than anything So I could wear you around all day Like a layer...
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Chris Castle
Apr 242 min read
Both Ends Of A Gun
I was running from a lynch mob Maybe running just to run No, I was running like my old man Running like a drifter's son I pulled that...
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Chris Castle
Apr 243 min read
Christmas In Jacksonville
Sneaking down to the Lil' Champ with my buddy Kiki, cracking open a glass bottle of Sunkist from the cooler as the Jamaican...
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Chris Castle
Apr 163 min read
Don't Look At Miss Ohio
We'd gotten to the auditorium early enough that morning to be the only ones there besides the janitor. He let us in a side door, and we...
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Chris Castle
Apr 124 min read
Lil' Smokey & The Wolfman
I learned early on, the advantages of carrying a cheap acoustic guitar around a campground. If you knew enough songs, in enough genres,...
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Chris Castle
Apr 91 min read
Stumbling Stone
He who's alive is alone And as sure as he'll die let it be known The surest of stumbling stones Are those we've rolled miles on our own...
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Chris Castle
Apr 85 min read
The Story Of the Diamond Boat
Stephen Burrows had everything a man could want. He'd inherited most of his money when his parents were killed in a plane crash just...
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Chris Castle
Apr 72 min read
I've Never Met A Ramone
When I called Tommy to ask if he'd play mandolin on the next album, I figured it was a long shot. I had a couple of things in my corner...
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Chris Castle
Mar 253 min read
I Fold
Even after the thirty minutes I'd spent finding my way out of JFK, my ears hadn't popped. It was my first time on an airplane and I...
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Chris Castle
Mar 204 min read
PFC Henry Adkinson and Mr. Excitement
I backed the van up by the side door, and started loading gear out to the sound of the waves hitting the deck in their drunken rhythm. It...
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Chris Castle
Mar 183 min read
Build A Band, Win A Fest
Before my brother opened his shop, there was only one retail music store in Norwalk, Ohio. My Martin had come from Mossman Music, and...
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Chris Castle
Mar 114 min read
Key West In A $150 Celica
"The car comes with the stereo" I repeated, and the tow-truck driver finally caved. "A hundred bucks, plus a ride down to that Best...
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Chris Castle
Mar 92 min read
Sheldon Williams And A Cartoon Bear
I made an agreement with my mother when I moved to Nashville, that I would finish high school there. So at the beginning of my sophomore...
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Chris Castle
Mar 52 min read
Sam Falbo's Blues (Lyrics)
Samuel T. Falbo was born in Floyd County Late 1950 in eastern Kentucky Raised by a TV repairman who tinkered With old radios in a dimly...
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Chris Castle
Mar 42 min read
Garth Makes A Milk Run
Garth had already finished up his organ tracks earlier that day, but when I saw the headlights slowly meandering up to the barn, I knew...
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Chris Castle
Mar 12 min read
Crown Royal & A Korg M-1
I lived with Millichamp for awhile, even though my publisher had provided me the condo at 19th Avenue South as part of my stipend. The...
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