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Roy Kasten

The Top 20 Kris Kristofferson songs

Over at the Website for 88.1 KDHX, the community radio station in St. Louis (I've got a show there on Wed mornings), I put together a list of my favorite Kris Kristofferson songs. Along with Merle Haggard, Kris will be playing St. Louis on March 9. Kristofferson&
Roy Kasten 08 Mar 2011

This One's for Dan

It's hard to say when I met Dan Bentele; surely it was in the mid-'90s, at Twangfest I or II in St. Louis, or perhaps it was before that after all. We might have met at that first Wilco show in Cicero's basement (when
Roy Kasten 30 Apr 2005

Various Artists - Real: The Tom T. Hall Project

He got his start in bluegrass, but movies came first. Tom T. Hall traveled around Kentucky with Hurley Curtis ("Uncle Curt") and brought movies to the small towns, and the boy would make announcements as the reels spun: "Over at Jones's Grocery they've
Roy Kasten 31 Dec 1998

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