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An open letter to my friends Jeb Bush, Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee

06/11/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Dear Governors Jeb Bush, Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee. Old friends, I’m in a bit of a pickle. I’m pretty sure that all three of you will be asking me to campaign for you somewhere along “the trail.” It will,…

Hey ISIS, I’m an American with a Remington

10/07/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Dear Fox Fans and world at large, When I do master classes in songwriting, I open the class by saying, “It was either Plato, or Socrates, or…(pregnant pause) Johnny Cash, who said, “Take me not to those who write your…

LARRY GATLIN: The Reason for Christmas Is Easter

04/22/2011 Published on Foxnews.com
To those of you who shy away from any religious “stuff” appearing in an op-ed or in political discourse, in general, I say, “bah, humbug.” Some definers say that religion only is another word for “worldview,” so please don’t get…

LARRY GATLIN: Have I Stayed Too Long At the Fair?

01/08/2011 Published on Foxnews.com
I really love songs…make that, I really love great songs. I know one when I see one…or, hear one. I have had the great, good fortune to have been tutored in the art, not of songwriting, but, songcrafting, by some…

LARRY GATLIN: The Rats Are Leaving the Sinking Ship

09/28/2010 Published on Foxnews.com
My GRANNY, Nida Bernice Willingham Doan, was born near Idabel, Oklahoma, in 1800- something or other (my mama is looking it up). She always claimed she was half Cherokee, and she looked like she had some Indian blood in her….she…