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Today, at 4:00pm... I will go and say good-bye to a man that was everything to me. He was a songwriter, singer, manager, friend and my mentor. Merle Kilgore.
In 1990 he answered a letter, that letter was from a frightened 39 year old college student. You see I had to write a paper on a songwriter, the songwriter was Hank Williams Sr. Over the years Merle was instrumental in paveing the road for me to become the writer that I am today. Everything from my moving to Nashville to seeing my dream as a writer come true. He taught me how this business of show business works. He was the one that would sit me down in his office and yell at me for not doing what I was suspose to do. And importantly he would take the time to phone me when he had read something that I wrote and say "thank-you", you handled that person well. "You brought them back to life just for a brief moment"...
So for those who do not think that having a mentor is something that you need or would want.... Stop for a moment and think. Everyone needs a mentor. I know I did.... and today I will say not only thank-you to him for taking the time but good-bye....
Forever and a day whatever else goes into print will be because he took the time with a unknown, someone that he saw beyond the simple beginings of a writer in Biographies and reached out a hand and said ... let me help you help yourself....
So stop and think again, everyone needs someone.
In 1990 he answered a letter, that letter was from a frightened 39 year old college student. You see I had to write a paper on a songwriter, the songwriter was Hank Williams Sr. Over the years Merle was instrumental in paveing the road for me to become the writer that I am today. Everything from my moving to Nashville to seeing my dream as a writer come true. He taught me how this business of show business works. He was the one that would sit me down in his office and yell at me for not doing what I was suspose to do. And importantly he would take the time to phone me when he had read something that I wrote and say "thank-you", you handled that person well. "You brought them back to life just for a brief moment"...
So for those who do not think that having a mentor is something that you need or would want.... Stop for a moment and think. Everyone needs a mentor. I know I did.... and today I will say not only thank-you to him for taking the time but good-bye....
Forever and a day whatever else goes into print will be because he took the time with a unknown, someone that he saw beyond the simple beginings of a writer in Biographies and reached out a hand and said ... let me help you help yourself....
So stop and think again, everyone needs someone.
