Here's the backstory about a song I co-wrote with David Hodges and Tom Douglas
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I've decided to do a few short backstory blogs about some songs I've written over the years.
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The best part of what I do, is provide a little goodness in someone's life when it's maybe just not so good.
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We want to hear your music! And we're going to choose one lucky winner to get a Producer Package as a grand prize.
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We all hugged mildly awkward hugs and started loading in drums, guitars and amps.
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I sat recently on a panel at a songwriter's event and my friend Travis Hill talked a lot about grinding…staying with a song.
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I'm gonna do a short series of mini-blogs about the art, method, struggle and magic of writing a song.
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Susan Farris sat next to her family piano as a child, sometime around 1975, listening to her mom sing and play a song called "Remembering."
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I jumped at the chance when Guitar Center and musicaficionado.com hit me up to be part of a songwriter contest.
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While lots of folks complain about what the cursed internet has done to music, a whole lot of things have changed for the better.
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Let's get the gratuitous Stapleton worship out of the way. I totally agree with you, he's a different kind of great.
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I woke up one morning and thought to myself: Why not give every songwriter the accessibility that I have to create great-sounding music?
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Sophia Dion is a busy young artist out of Southern California, attending a performing arts high school by day and writing songs in the evening.
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I was lucky enough to perform on some iconic stages at some amazing venues over my time as an artist. But as a songwriter, the ultimate honor is to play the Bluebird Cafe.
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Someone once gave me some good advice: be cool to the people you meet going up, cause you'll see 'em again on your way down.
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We went to see the Foo Fighters last week here in Nashville. And holy hell! This is truly the best live band we got going folks.
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What is a hit? How do you write one? I will now clear my throat and give to you, the formula for writing a hit song.
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I get asked sometimes, "Who or what are your influences?" I'd dive into the obligatory list: The Who, Zeppelin, The Beatles...inevitably shifting to my Flaming Lips stories.
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