Dad, you would have been 88 years old today, two years away from 90, and it’s still hard to believe you’re gone.

“You better watch where you’re goin’, remember where you been. That’s the way I see it, I’m a Simple Man” – Charlie Daniels 1989

In 1989, Dad was approached to write some songs for the Patrick Swayze motion picture, “Next of Kin,” a movie about a Chicago cop who grew up in the hills of Kentucky, who tries to catch the killers of his younger brother, as his older brother prepares for a blood feud with the Chicago mob.