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Kathy Kostelec - vocals
Bill Kostelec - lead guitar
Eugene Jablonsky - cello
Bob Rice - bass guitar

lyrics

Guitar Man by Kathy Kostelec © September 2004

Nobody tells a story like the Guitar Man
Nobody knows your troubles like the Guitar Man
There’s magic in his every word
There’s music in his hands
Nobody tells a story like the Guitar Man

There’s a freight train rumbling in the night coming round the bend
Engineer hums a lonely song by the Guitar Man
Gone so long and he’s heading home to be alone again
Nobody knows his troubles like the Guitar Man

There’s a mother rocking in the night trying to understand
She’s humming long to a mournful song by the Guitar Man
Her baby’s gone he ain’t coming home cept for burying
Nobody knows her sorrows like the Guitar Man

Nobody tells your story like the Guitar Man
Nobody knows your sorrows like the Guitar Man
There’s magic in his every word
There’s music in his hands
Nobody tells a story like the Guitar Man
Like the Guitar Man
Like the Guitar Man
Like the Guitar Man

credits

from Sing While You Can, track released April 11, 2023
Recorded and produced by Bill and Kathy Kostelec
Kostelec Music Publishing
Kathy Kostelec - song, vocals
Bill Kostelec - lead guitar
Eugene Jablonsky - cello
Bob Rice - bass guitar

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Blue Ribbon Tea Company Spokane, Washington

"evocative" "unconventional" "Woody-Guthrie-esque"

Illinois factory towns, Kentucky heartache, Spokane history...

Singing their stories at festivals, venues, on Public Radio, and on the front porch.

Bill & Kathy Kostelec are "a welcomed flashback to the original American Folk music movement..the real deal." musician and radio host/producer Bob Rice
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