I don't know the answer as to why Bob Gibson wasn't credited with authorship by George Hamilton the IVth, "Stops Along The Way", and he accepts authorship. Yet I have a 1971 LP recorded by John D. Loudermilk and he takes credit for writing the song. Jerry Silverman's 1975 Folk Song Encyclopedia Volume II has no author at all for the song.. As ol' Sherlock would ""very interesting""