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Chris Castle
May 23, 20243 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
Apr 24, 20243 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 16, 20243 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 12, 20244 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 7, 20242 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 20, 20244 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 18, 20243 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 11, 20244 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 9, 20242 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 4, 20242 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 1, 20242 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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Chris Castle
Feb 29, 20244 min read
Gas Pedal Alley & the Dinosaur Robots
By the time we got to Woodstock, we were hungry and in need of sleep. We were also out of smoke, which wasn't good, considering we had...
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Chris Castle
Feb 28, 20243 min read
Those Moments
When I was thirteen, I got a cheap acoustic guitar at a garage sale, and started playing cover tunes for tips within the first week. I...
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Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
A Brief Burst Of (Charley) Pride
I spent a good chunk of my teen years on 19th Avenue South in Nashville. My publisher had two units in a building there; an office on the...
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Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
F#ck Recording, Let's Ball
When I was writing for Terry Rose Music, RJ introduced me to a very successful engineer who had recently purchased one of the bigger...
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Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Boone's Farm & Smiley Holler, TN
Had I stayed in high school, 1994 would've been my senior year. I would have been a Graphic Arts major at a little trade school in...
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