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Pat Bunch

Pat Bunch is credited on 376 releases across 139 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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139

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Biography

Patricia Karen Bunch (June 22, 1939 – January 30, 2023) was an American country music songwriter. Born in Zanesville Ohio, Patricia Karen Hendershot. After moving to Phoenix Arizona in October of 1963, she met and married her second husband. She started her songwriting career under the name Pat Bunch in 1974 which was her last name from her second marriage. She decided to keep the last name, "Bunch" since that was how everyone one knew her professionally in Nashville even though she remarried to her third husband in 1975. After seeing Kris Kristofferson at a concert in Phoenix, she met him backstage and asked him if she could successfully be in the music business without relocating to Nashville. He told her no, so in the Fall of 1974 she made the move to Nashville. Much of her earlier chart hits resulted from collaborations with fellow songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose. Bunch also had multiple chart successes co-writing with Doug Johnson. Bunch's co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated song "I'll Still Be Loving You" by Restless Heart. Other songs that she has written include "Wild One" by Faith Hill and "Living in a Moment" by Ty Herndon. Bunch died at her home in Cross Plains, Tennessee, on January 30, 2023, at the age of 83.

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