R.I.P Jim McBride

 You might not know his name but if you are a country music fan you know the songs Jim McBride wrote.

                                      His first hit by Conway Twitty "A Bridge that just won't Burn"

Johnny Lee's "Bet Your Heart on Me"

Keith Stegall "California"

Waylon Jennings "Rose in Paradise"

Alan Jackson "Chasin' That Neon Rainbow"

"Chattahoochee"

He wrote several other hits. His songs will live on in the recordings of some famous artist. Jim McBride will be missed by his friends and families.

RE: Nashville 1864

Last year on Myspace I put a list of books I read last year. I'll do the same on here by the end of the month. I had read a few but then I started writing, so I haven't read as much.

Anyway the last book I read was Nashville 1864 by Madison Jones. It was a short book only 130 pages which I read mostly in one day. In 1997 the book won the 1997 Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction.

The book was written in the form of a man's recollection to when he was a child and his dad was a soldier for the Confederate Army. Most of the book dealt with the kid sneaking out of a Union occupied town with a slave buddy to find his dad on the battle front.Lots of details and action to hold the readers interest to make this a short but enjoyable read.