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How I Wrote All Those Songs by Harlan Howard

Mark Rowland, Musician, November 1996

"I HIT NASHVILLE with the greatest bunch of guys — Roger Miller, Bill Anderson, Willie Nelson. We were hanging together every night at Tootsies, playing guitars and drinking beers. I was a ferocious writer back then; I might write three or four songs a day.

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