Dennis Linde

Songwriter Dennis Linde remained a fixture of the united states charts for many years, penning blockbusters for everybody from Elvis Presley towards the Dixie Chicks. Given birth to March 18, 1943, in Abilene, TX, Linde spent a lot of his adolescence in St. Louis, 1st picking up your guitar at age 15. Through the past due ’60s, he performed within the St. Louis music group the Starlighters, traveling a dry-cleaning delivery pickup truck by day time. When speeding seat tickets price him his permit and his day time job, Linde considered songwriting, relocating to Nashville in 1969 to become listed on the Combine Music personnel (which also included Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, and Wanda Jackson). Linde obtained his 1st major strike a year later on when Roy Drusky slice his “Long Long Tx Street.” He also authorized a solo cope with Mercury’s Intrepid imprint, issuing his debut work, Linde Manor. In 1972, Elvis obtained his final number 1 strike with “Burning up Love,” starting Linde towards the forefront of Nashville songwriters. The eye gained him a cope with Elektra, which released his self-titled sophomore record in 1973. Trapped within the Suburbs made an appearance around the label’s Asylum subsidiary the next 12 months, and in 1978 Linde authorized to Monument release a his 4th and final single disc, Beneath the Vision. He continuing his commercial achievement during the middle-’80s, writing strikes for Kenny Rogers (“Goodbye, Marie”), Gary Morris (“The Like She Within Me”), Don Williams (“Walkin’ a Damaged Center”), and Eddy Raven (“I’m Gonna ENABLE YOU TO GET”). Nevertheless, Linde’s finest function emerged through the pursuing 10 years, when he unleashed his mordant wit on music for Tag Chesnutt (“Bubba Shot the Jukebox”), Joe Diffie (“John Deere Green”), and Shenandoah (“Janie Baker’s Like Slave”) — in 1993, he was called the Nashville Songwriter Association’s Songwriter of the entire year, and in 1994 gained BMI’s Songwriter the entire year honors. Linde produced nationwide headlines in 2000 once the Dixie Chicks have scored along with his bleakly witty “Goodbye Earl,” the questionable tale of the abusive husband wiped out by his long-suffering wife. He came back to the higher reaches of the united states graphs in 2005 with Alan Jackson’s “The Talkin’ Tune Fix Blues.”