Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
He was also one of the most unpleasant people I have ever met. I think he didn't co-write that much becauase a lot of people quite frankly couldn't stand him.

Over the past five years, his cuts started drying up. He actually died about two months ago.


Wow, I didn't know Harley had died. He always looked sort of unhealthy to me. I remember one of his songs (not a hit) talked about the Beatles in the seventies. I thought that was funny because they were actually broken up by time 1970 rolled around.

He was a good writer though. I loved "The Baby" by Blake Shelton. The first time I heard it I was headed to the Frank Brown Festival.

You gotta admit though, whether his personality had anything to do with the hits drying up we'll never know. He had a good run, better than most. Most runs don't consistently last as long as his.

I agree with you about him being perhaps the only solo writer in the last decade or so EXCEPT for Scooter Crusoe. His solo output of hits wasn't a lot though. It was more than mine of course. Alan Jackson's written a lot of solo hits LOL but he's a dynamically efficient self contained songwriting singing machine.