Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 25 January 2023

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT – MARK CASSTEVENS “The very nature of our job is to be invisible,” says Nashville session multi-instrumentalist Mark Casstevens. Specializing in acoustic guitar, Mark accompanied over 250 artists in the recording studio from 1971 through 2010. “If you have an ego, you shouldn’t be in my line of work. You have to […]

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Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 11 January 2023

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT – ROGER BROWN Randy Travis’s 1993 album, Wind in the Wire, contained four cuts by one songwriter, Roger Brown. I called Roger to discuss how that astounding number came about. He was in the right place at the right time. He and his friends had been writing cowboy songs, something no one […]

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