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Don Schlitz
Født 29-08-1952 i Durham, North Carolina,
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Don Schlitz, født og opvokset i North Carolina flyttede i 1973 til Nashville, hvor han slog sig ned som sangskriver og den første af hans sange, der blev indspillet, "The Gambler" indbragte ham en Grammy,samt CMA's award for Song of the Year.
Don Schlitz har haft stor betydning for store navne som Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, The Judds, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tanya Tucker, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Allison Kraus og mange flere.
Blandt Don Schlitzs mest kendte sange kan nævnes “On the Other Hand”, “Forever and Ever, Amen”, “Deeper Than the Holler”, “Heros and Friends”, “One promise Too Late”, “Strong Enough to Bend”, “My Arms Stay Open All Night”, “Forty Hour Work Week”, “Stand A Little Rain”, “I Won’t Take Less than Your Love”, “When You Say Nothing at All”, “Oh Heart”, “She Deserves You”, “Richest Man on Earth”, “Daddy’s Come Around”, “Rockin’ with the Rhythm of the Rain”, “Turn It Loose”, “I Know Where I’m Going”, “I Feel Lucky”, “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”, “I Take My Chances”, “Learning to Live Again”, “I Think About It All the Time”, “Crazy from the Heart”, “You’ll Never Be Sorry”, “Give Me Wings,” “Good as I Was to You”, “I Think About You”, “The Greatest”, og “Why They Call It Falling”.
Schlitz var ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year fire år i træk fra 1988 til 1991, han har desuden vundet et hav af priser og grammyer og står som en af countrymusikkens stærkeste sangskrivere.
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