August 22, 1993
Bobbie Cryner met veteran Nashville hitwriter Max D. Barnes more than four years ago, when all she knew about him was that he wrote songs. Barnes didn't know much about Cryner, either. A man who enjoys a joke, he asked Cryner if she knew what they call a pretty girl in Kansas. She said, "No, what?" He said, "A tourist." She informed him she was from Kansas. "He apologized all over himself," Cryner recalls, laughing. Embarrassment may explain why Barnes-who had written or co-written dozens of...