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| David Hanners |
| David Hanners sings for the doomed and the thoughtful |
"It's kind of a joke amongst my songwriter friends that I kill off a lot of characters in my songs," says David Hanners, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and folk singer.
He produces his latest CD, "The Traveler's Burden," to prove it. The first offering is about a serial killer who murdered six people. His grandfather dies in the second track. Hanners sings about a hospital fire, a powder mill explosion, a suicidal veteran and a slain cab driver.
"It's a huge death count," Hanners says.
By day, David Hanners is the Pioneer Press' only reporter in its Minneapolis news room, so he uses his lunch hour to play guitar in the empty office. Hanners, 56, has been playing music since he was 15 years old, and has a gig lined up at the Ginkgo Coffeehouse in St. Paul Saturday.
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