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May 30, 2026
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Jimmy McDonough’s Gary Stewart biography is a honky-tonk tale of ‘thwap’
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Jimmy McDonough’s Gary Stewart biography is a honky-tonk tale of ‘thwap’
BRAD WHEELER
PUBLISHED MAY 30, 2026
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Jimmy McDonough’s vivid new biography on haywire honky-tonker Gary Stewart begins with the musician throwing a lethally sharp object near his head.
“Thwap” was the sound the steak knife made when it hit the paneling of Stewart’s double-wide on a hot Florida day in the late 1980s.
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