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Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville
Charlie Hopper is well aware that it’s cliché for advertising agency people to dream of being songwriters, but there it is. He works at Young & Laramore Advertising in Indianapolis and has written songs his whole life—most of them for a D.I.Y. rock band. A few years ago he got the idea that he should write a song and see if he could sell it to Nashville. So far he hasn’t.
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August 5, 2020Dispatch 53: Calliope Repair
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July 22, 2020Dispatch 52: Lights of Santa Monica, Head Sores of the East Village
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July 8, 2020Dispatch 51: Anonymous Celebrity, or the House That “Something Stupid” Built
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May 29, 2019Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 50: Wrecking My Car, Part II
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May 23, 2019Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 49: Wrecking My Car, Part I
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November 9, 2018Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 48: “I’ll Be Seeing You,” On Repeat
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October 16, 2018Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 47: Hulking Victrola
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October 4, 2018Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 46: Dreams and Candy
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March 8, 2018Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 45: Welcome to The Song Shop
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December 19, 2017Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 44: …That Was “Good Year for the Roses,” and Now, “I Just Wanna Be Mad”
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October 28, 2016Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 43: No, Darryl Worley, I Have Not Forgotten
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September 21, 2015Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 42: A Slow-Motion House Fire
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