Playboy's Hall Of Fleeting Fame
April, 1976
Back in 1964, when I pulled into Nashville as a greenhorn songwriter, I had the pleasure of sharing a woman with the late but great Jimmie Gee Joe Bob Baker Carter Russell, Jr. I asked him how he wrote his many hits. Jimmie Gee smiled that famous smile and said, "With a blue pen." I knew right then that I would make it big in the country world. I had a whole suitcase filled with blue pens.Country music isn't hard to write. There are no big words, no complicated phrases. Write yourself...
