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“Abilene” — the song of a country boy stuck in a big city and getting homesick seeing each train going by — was written by singer/songwriter Bob Gibson in the early 1960s.Gibson was a very early arrival on the folk music scene in the late 1950s. In fact, Bob was already so well established by the time of the 1959 Newport Folk Festival that it was he who introduced to the stage a then-unknown Joan Baez. Gibson’s songs were recorded by everybody from Peter, Paul and Mary and Simon & Garfunkel to the Byrds and Bob Dylan. Perhaps Bob’s best-known work is “Abilene,” which he wrote with John D. Loudermilk. Bob always said he was inspired to write the song after watching cowboy star Randolph Scott’s film “Abilene Town,” which was set in Abilene, Kansas, the railhead town on the Chisholm Trail. The best known version of the tune, of course, was George Hamilton IV’s 1963 rendition; it reached number one on the U.S. country music chart for four weeks and peaked at number 15 on the pop charts. B...
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