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Don Humphries

Don Humphries is an American country and bluegrass songwriter whose songs have been recorded by the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Del McCoury, and others. His best-known songs include "Blackbirds and Crows" and "Eli Renfro," and he co-wrote "The Boys Are Back in Town" with Stuart Duncan and Pat Enright, which Patty Loveless recorded on Mountain Soul. As a young man he performed with banjo player Tom McKinney and later with Ralph Lewis in the Piney Mountain Boys.

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