Since I haven’t done a Country Music post in a while, I thought I’d post a couple by Ed Bruce. A very good song writer, and pretty good singer, Bruce wanted to be an actor and in the mid 1980s cut back on music to pursue that. Which I find interesting, because it just shows that most people want to be something else, no matter how successful they are. But I digress.

Here is one he wrote and recorded that later on became a huge hit for Willie Nelson. Who is a pretty good singer, but a terrific song writer.

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In 1980 he wrote and recorded the melancholy “Last Cowboy Song”

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Among his other songs was “See the Big Man Cry Mama” which was a pretty big hit for Charlie Louvin in the 1960s. Louvin passed away from cancer last week at 83.

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More serious stuff tomorrow or later today if I get some time.