Video: Long Career with Postal Service Inspiring a Decatur, IL Man’s Music

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DECATUR — Tracy Osborne never knows exactly when inspiration will strike.

A postal worker of 28 years, Osborne has learned that all that walking from house-to-house leaves a lot of time for the mind to wander.

“When I’m walking, delivering the mail I get the creative juices flowing,” he said.

By night, he turns in his uniform, scanner, and mail bag for a guitar, an amp, and a microphone, satisfying a musical interest that he says began when he first saw the Beatles.

Osborne started as a mail man when he was stationed in Las Vegas and Nellis Air Force base in the 1980s, but said he taught himself to play the guitar in 7th grade. In the years since, he’s  learned to play a number of popular songs, mostly rock and roll from the ’80s and ’90s, and he’s written about 450 songs of his own.

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