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Good Ole Boys Like Me (written by Bob Mcdill)

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The following information--in parenthesis--was taken from nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com.
The pictures in the video are of Bob Mcdill in younger and later years and the late Don Williams.

"In one of McDill's greatest and most resonant hits, "Good Ole Boys Like Me," he alludes to all of the influences that inspired him as a writer, from "those Williams boys — Hank and Tennessee" — to Thomas Wolfe to all-night disc jockeys "John R. and the Wolfman."

His rich, literate songs took time and deliberation. "Blood, sweat and tears" is how he described his process. In a town where some writers peel off a song a day, McDill was never the fastest gun in town. But in the '70s, '80s and '90s, no one had better aim. More than 300 of his songs were cut (many by multiple artists), and 30 became #1 hits.

While Don Williams was one of the first artists to rely on McDill's gift, over the decades his songs were recorded by Waylon Jennings, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Milsap and Alan Jackson.

McDill won 37 BMI Awards and 17 ASCAP Awards in the process. But as sensitive song interpreters started disappearing from the airwaves, he decided in 2000 to retire. Since then, he's shunned interviews and publicity, pursuing gardening, book collecting and other hobbies he never had time for when he was "a classic workaholic." "
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