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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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July 7, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 17: Inexplicably Optimistic/Insufficiently Discouraged
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June 28, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 16: Ten Thousand Crickets
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June 17, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 15: I Have Always Depended on the Mattress of Strangers
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June 1, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 14: How Big a Stain Should It Be?
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May 13, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 13: Thirteen People Who Can Say No
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April 23, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 12: Is Country Music Right For You? Take This Quiz…
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April 6, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 11: … Uh, Actually, I Was Singing
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March 17, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 10: Almost Paradise
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February 25, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 9: Too Many War Songs Already
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February 9, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 8: Ol’ Cuticle Moon
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January 20, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 7: Verse Verse Lift Chorus Verse Lift Chorus Bridge Chorus
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January 4, 2010Dispatches From a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville: Dispatch 6: A Libra Depression Baby
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