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The 15 Best Baseball Songs Ever Written

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The 15 Best Baseball Songs Ever Written The World Series is underway and while pundits across the globe examine Tony LaRussa's bullpen management or Nelson Cruz's ability to hit a fastball from Arlington to El Paso, I'm going to focus on baseball's…

Paul Simon Discusses his Songwriting Process

Paul Simon Discusses his Songwriting Process The great Paul Simon celebrated his 70th birthday this week. One of the greatest songwriters ever to pick up a pencil, his credits include "Mrs. Robinson", "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge Over…

The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

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The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams When country music legend Hank Williams died in the backseat of a cadillac somewhere between Knoxville, Tennesse and Oak Hill, West Virginia on New Year's Day 1953, police found alongside him an empty bottle…
famous band names

Mookie Blaylock and Lead Balloons: The Inspiration Behind 11 Famous Band Names

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The Inspiration Behind 11 Famous Band Names For many bands, the most difficult part of the creative process is not composing songs or writing lyrics, it is coming up with a band name that represents the band as a whole. Since a band’s name…

Lyricists: The Sung and the Unsung

Lyricists: The Sung and the Unsung Most people associate songwriting with the act of writing lyrics when, in fact, that is only one of element involved in writing a song. A songwriter is defined as “a person who writes the words or music…

How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan

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How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan Often, the hardest part about creative expression is trying to get started.  It’s a challenge everyone faces at one time or another, including the great Bob Dylan. While Dylan is known first and foremost…
Stephen Sondheim

Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim

Blackwing Biography Series: Stephen Sondheim Our last installment of the Blackwing Biography Series, celebrating the June release of the Palomino Blackwing 602 features the only person on our list who is still alive. He's the American-born…

75 years of Kris Kristofferson

75 Years of Kris Kristofferson Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An All-American athlete, a fighter pilot and a Rhodes Scholar walk into a bar. His name was Kris Kristofferson. 75 years ago, on June 22, 1936, Kristofferson was born a star.…
Nelson Riddle

Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle

Blackwing Biography Series: Nelson Riddle Nelson Riddle, an American-born composer, orchestrator, and bandleader, was an avid user of the Eberhard Faber Blackwing. His work with Capitol Records helped define a generation of big band. He worked…
Blackwing Experience

Ode to Blackwing

This post is in celebration of the launch of the new Palomino Blackwing 602 we release for sale at midnight tonight and as a fun way to share my own poetic creativity this month given our contest themes. Thus I've written my own "Ode to Blackwing"…