Angie Tracy
Songwriter
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If Merle Haggard is right,
then it must be true that every fool has a rainbow. Angie Tracy would be
the first to tell you that Merle Haggard is NEVER wrong - her whole life
has been spent chasing rainbows, though few of them were hers. Born in
Lubbock, Texas to a father who was a storm-chasing roofer and part-time
con-man and a strong and forgiving mother who was determined to stand by
him, Angie had a very interesting and unusual childhood. Whether because
of a good storm two hundred miles away, an impatient landlord, an angry
business investor, or the LAW, there was a consistent theme to life back
then - and it was based on two frequently spoken words. "We're moving." Attending over thirty schools in nearly as many towns didn't leave many opportunities for her to form significant relationships with other children her age, but Angie had a radio and an 8-track tape player and said that she never cared for hop-scotch or skipping rope anyway. She was hanging out with Loretta Lynn and Barbara Mandrell. In first grade, she had a mad crush on Charlie Rich. By second grade, she was certain that she could sing exactly like Tammy Wynette. By third grade, she would fall asleep at night and dream that she was singing on Hee-Haw with Roy Clark. Merle Haggard became her best friend. She had tea parties with Tanya Tucker and Crystal Gayle. There were occasions that she would invite little girls from school over to spend the night, but all they wanted to do was color and play with dolls. They didn't know any good songs. When Angie was twelve years old and had sang every song she ever knew more than five hundred times, she had no choice except to make up new ones until the latest issue of "Country Song Roundup" came out. By the time she was fifteen, she considered herself a serious songwriter. Her teenage years were spent closed up in one of her many various bedrooms playing an old second-hand guitar and singing sappy love songs to Razzy Bailey and John Anderson album covers. There was never any doubt that she would eventually end up in Nashville as one of the richest and most famous country singers in the history of the world. She probably thought that running off at 19 and marrying a guitar player would get her there faster, but instead, she ended up in Iowa with a guitar player to support, and a baby to raise as well. She spent her twenties working, washing dishes, and writing sad songs about working and washing dishes. There was never any doubt that she would eventually end up in Nashville working and washing dishes, which is primarily how she spent most of her thirties. Now in her early forties, Angie is finally able to begin pursuing the life that she imagined for herself when she was young. The guitar player is long gone, the baby is grown, the automatic dishwasher is humming, and Angie is writing songs under a rainbow in Nashville. If she has any doubts, she hasn't discovered them yet. |
Here are a few songs to get you started.
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