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‘One by Willie,’ Episode 6: Sonny Throckmorton on ‘What a Way to Live’

Nov 13, 2020 By John Spong

Sonny Throckmorton is one of the greatest country songwriters who ever lived. He’s the man who wrote “If We’re Not Back in Love by Monday” for Merle Haggard, “Middle Age Crazy” for Jerry Lee Lewis, “Friday Night Blues” for John Conlee, “Why Not Me” for the Judds, “The Cowboy Rides Away” for George Strait, and the song I remember being my mother’s favorite when I was a kid, “The Last… Read Story

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Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide

By Skip Hollandsworth

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy—“to put a smile on their faces, to give them a thrill or two.” It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

Issue: August 2018

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