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    <author><![CDATA[Stan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I knew Joey Bowker long before he was the Bat Poet. We grew up in neighboring small towns in northeast Ohio.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well I can say this Joey and I got together one night in the Spring of '92. I was a playback person (for Viacom), and I remember see him go in and out of the editing room all the time.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jason Marc Phelan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This came as a big shock to me as I was unaware that he had been having medical problems. Unfortunately it's not a shock that another awesome individual has been laid low due to not having adequate care available and having to rely on benefits to whittle away at what I am sure were huge bills for being treated like a human being.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Lee Lane]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I didn't know Joey as much as some but was introduced by my friend a drummer Gary Skipper at a taping. Later we (our Band) were part of a benefit show at the Limelight.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:06:14 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Melba Toast]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Jim Ridley painted a very eloquent and amazingly accurate portrait of Joey Bowker, Nashville's beloved Bat Poet. Joey's art was was so unsophisticated and naiive, it was avant garde.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:04:27 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[mr. pink]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Great post, Gast.
        
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      <![CDATA[Joey was one of the very first people I met when I arrived in Nashville. He told me he had lived much of the past two years on the streets and I know there were times that he was close to going back.
        
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          <a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/Profile?oid=1501305">xray</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Sam Bukka]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The Bat Poet and his crazy show will definitely be missed. He was original when others followed the current trends and he made fun of the things that other people were afraid to comment on.
        
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          Sam Bukka]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:54:36 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Selina Desire]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Joey was a wonderful man and I was very honored to get to work with him for many years. Thank you, Joey, for making so many dreams come true.
        
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          Selina Desire]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:46:12 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Min]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I didn't watch regularly, but there was something so totally off the wall about the Bat Poet that I just couldn't help stopping and watching for a minute, while I channel-surfed.<br>
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Rest in peace, Mr. Bowker. You were truly an original.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[mikeychuckrivers]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This was a beautiful story. I'm from up north in Canada and was just chasing a Twitter link, but this dude seems like he should have been all types up Adult Swim's alley.
        
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      <![CDATA[A fine example for all to follow; "Rage, rage against the dying of the light". One more piece of the threadbare spangled fabric that was uniquely Nashville gone.
        
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