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THE CASTLE CHRONICLES
Tall Tales & Short Stories from America's Least-Known Traveling Troubadour
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Birth of the Blues
I honestly don't remember the last time I saw my dad. I know it was 1985, and I know I was nine years old. He was a concrete worker, who...
Chris Castle
Mar 1, 20241 min read
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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...
Chris Castle
Feb 29, 20244 min read
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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...
Chris Castle
Feb 28, 20243 min read
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Day #1: Old Woodstock '23
The Drive We left northern Kentucky on a Saturday, planning to stop for the night somewhere in Pennsylvania. But my traveling companion...
Chris Castle
Feb 28, 20243 min read
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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...
Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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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...
Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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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...
Chris Castle
Feb 27, 20242 min read
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