There are scores of excellent songs weritten in the current era by songwriters like Kristin Lavin and John Prine and a dozen others. Every now and then I come across a knockout of a song and discover it was written recently, and my jaw drops -- songs like "Nightrider's Lament", "King of Mercy Canyon", "The Kind of Love...". I say three cheers for those who keep writing songs.

There was an old saying allegedly attributed to the Mohicans, but maybe not, that says "Let me write the songs of a people and I care not who writers its laws". More or less. I concur.

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