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    RIP Hal Ketchum 1953-2020

    "With great sadness and grief we announce that Hal passed away peacefully last night at home due to complications of Dementia. May his music live on forever in your hearts and bring you peace."
    http://www.halketchum.com/home.html


    "Strangely enough, the latest release from Ketchum — now 61 years old — brings to mind the thrill of his earliest albums. Back then, Ketchum was a young cabinet maker from Gruene, TX, who wrote his own songs about love, longing, and life in the American South. He hit the country market shortly after artists like Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and Travis Tritt, three likeminded troubadours who also wrote their own material. A bemused Earle called the movement "the great credibility scare of 1990," laughing at the fact that country music — typically a conservative genre — was suddenly being steered by young, creative wild men. "
    http://www.halketchum.com/bio-1.html
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    If you never followed country, then check out Ketchum's signature song. It's one of those under three minute songs that packs a wallop.


    You'll be hooked!



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    Yeah, this happened before Thanksgiving. 2020 has been especially hard on the outlaw country/troubadour types.

    John Prine
    Jerry Jeff Walker
    Billy Joe Shaver
    David Olney
    Charlie Daniels...

    Might even consider Kenny Rogers in that group.
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    Of course “Past The Point of Rescue” was is a great song but honestly his body of work worth a listen. Here’s a great two-step ... RIP

    "Nobody wins in a Dairy Challenge" ~ Kenny Rogers, RIP


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    Is in the hands of fools” ~ King Crimson

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    RIP.
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    RIP

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    He was an old high school friend when we were growing up in the little village of Greenwich (Green-witch, not Gren-itch); about 15 miles East of the Saratoga race track in Upstate New York. His family lived a hundred yards or so from my grandparents. His mom was an administrator at the local high school - so she was everybody's second mom. Hal played on the school football, basketball and (if I recall correctly) baseball teams. He was a popular guy, really down to Earth, who was king of his prom. Never had a bad word to say about anybody. Stood up for his friends when they needed backup (all kinds of stories there). He was a year ahead of me in school; and would occasionally give me some artwork for the humor magazine I edited (though it was difficult to get him to meet a deadline). I only ever recall him playing guitar on his front porch - anytime else, he had drum sticks in his hands, and played drums in a local rock band. I hadn't seen him since 1973, when he was still painting houses in town.

    Small towns love it when a local boy makes the big time - see here.
    Neat story. My nephew got married in Saratoga: it's really beautiful up there.
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