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In his mid-teens, he began writing songs, and also learned to play the banjo, which he played at bluegrass festivals to ear a little extra cash. Skip attended Redlands High School in Redlands, California and graduated from Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of his first noted jobs was performing in a country show at the Busch Garden theme park in Virginia. Around the age of 19, he moved to Nashville where he worked as a songwriter and by the age of 21 he was performing at the Opryland theme park. He began recording demos and doing commercial singing. Eventually, Skip would land a job at Acuff-Rose music-publishing house. One of his first tracks to be recorded was “One Hell Of A Song” by George Jones. Jimmy Bowen signed him to MCA Records and he had US country successes with “Your Memory Wins Again” and “Burning A Hole In My Heart”. Skip had five hits to come from his first album, Coast of Colorado, and his style was likened to Randy Travis and Don McLean. \u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Skip+Ewing","playStationPath":"/stations/279736581/play","stationId":279736581,"bioPath":"/music/Skip+Ewing/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Rebecca+Lynn+Howard","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/875/875fd455e4e184dbdb4ad877889319ae_md.jpg","artistName":"Rebecca Lynn Howard","artistId":11907,"station_id":113302078},{"musicPath":"/music/Charly+McClain","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/8f5/8f5838cdf3957e3e4a01ec0bbe41ca76_md.jpg","artistName":"Charly McClain","artistId":131924,"station_id":285398084},{"musicPath":"/music/Michelle+Wright","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a90/a904e5c5256063f33e9ff9cb401be5e3_md.jpg","artistName":"Michelle Wright","artistId":118727,"station_id":283254084},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Forester+Sisters","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/160/160a429a263b74b7186d9aa53e93257c_md.jpg","artistName":"The Forester Sisters","artistId":440145,"station_id":400897820},{"musicPath":"/music/Eddy+Raven","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c41/c418dc7ce3f3c54a514dd192c45267ee_md.jpg","artistName":"Eddy Raven","artistId":112544,"station_id":282284264},{"musicPath":"/music/Bucky+Covington","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/6df/6dfc13e17d262aaa5567094d8ac8558f_md.jpg","artistName":"Bucky Covington","artistId":10392,"station_id":113291823},{"musicPath":"/music/T+Graham+Brown","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/801/801ced5eef75423914ac12666e63ea65_md.jpg","artistName":"T. 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