Bill Caswell is a country music

Country music

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 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 and musician

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 active since the early 1980s. Together with his wife Rosi Caswell, the duo from Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Bartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 43,070 at the 2010 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County, in...

 perform on rare old style instruments including the ukelin, mandolin-guitar, bell-harp, and tremeloa. In the 1980s he performed his music on television in Hee Haw

Hee Haw

Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969–1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication. The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being...

and on live radio in A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

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. The two together performed at Dollywood

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 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

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 for five seasons.

Bill began his career in the early 1980s as a songwriting protégé of Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell

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 and developed a reputation as one of the best songwriters in the business. Working for Tree Record, as a staff writer. He
co-wrote KENTUCKY HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS with Kin Vassy. Kenny Rogers included the song on his first Christmas album. It went "Platinum" in 3 weeks.

In 1983, Bill Caswell appeared along with Crowell on the PBS

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 music television program Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits

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for a "Songwriters Showcase" episode.

Bill co-wrote some songs with other top country songwriters, such as Alan Rhody, with "Just When" which was recorded by George Jones

George Jones

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 on his 1985 album Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?

Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes?

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, and "Somebody To Care", recorded by Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

 on her 1986 album Girls Like Me

Girls Like Me

Girls Like Me is a 1986 album by Tanya Tucker. It included the number one country hit "Just Another Love." "I'll Come Back as Another Woman" and "One Love at a Time" would do almost as well at #2 and #3, respectively...

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In recent years, Bill and Rosi Caswell performed at the September 30 to October 2, 1999 annual Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival

Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival

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 in Guthrie, Oklahoma

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He is now retired and owns a pecan

Pecan

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orchard in his hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.