his week I'm trying to write three new songs. This idea came to me a few weeks ago, and when the ending landed in my brain the day before yesterday it wrote itself.
Recorded in the basement using my iPhone and mandolin. (continued)
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The Politest Pirate
How Many Kids Love Their Hometown?
f you ever want to get depressed just come to this town
Hard to top that as an opening line. Nice internal rhyme with the next line (continued)
Doughnut Holes and Roger Miller
azz musicians occasionally highlight a melody by playing all the notes around it, leaving a hole where it should be. If you're paying attention, you'll "hear" it.
Some smart doughnut shop decided to stop rolling all the doughnut holes back together to make more doughnuts, and just started frying up doughnut holes to sell. (continued)
USSS: Ross Durand
takes a lot of songwriting confidence to take on the challenge of writing an entire song for each line in Bob Dylan's Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Takes a lotta songwriting chops to pull it off.
This year it looks like Ross Durand is going to finish this seriously ambitious and musically satisfying project. (continued)
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USSS: Phil Norman
ewgrass: it's what's for dinner. Okay, maybe that's not how it goes, but I'll have Phil Norman's take on American bluegrass and folk any day. (continued)
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USSS: Phil Henry
imply the finest story-telling songwriter I know, Phil Henry will make you cry, guaranteed. (continued)
USSS: Old Lost John
ut of the dark woods of far northern Scandinavia comes one of the most authentic American folk songwriters I've heard. I'll let Old Lost John tell you where his music comes from: (continued)
USSS: oddbod
hy isn't oddbod famous? Proof positive that talent and fame are not connected. Tim "oddbod" Conway is one of the finest songwriters and performers I've ever heard. His new songs at FAWM turn into a mad rush to comment. A week in, his first song Instamatic has nearly a hundred comments from other songwriters who are supposed to be scrambling to write 14 songs of their own. (continued)
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USSS: Nicole Ponder
oices like this are made for country, and Nicole Ponder knows it. Not syrupy or overblown, just powerful and honest.
USSS: Mike Debenham
chingly beautiful, deceptively effortless. Another prolific songwriter, Mike Debenham has written tunes that will live in my head forever. (continued)
USSS: Evin Wolverton
ard to pin down, is Evin Wolverton.
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USSS: Billy Sea
an you say "prolific" ? My buddy Billy Sea often writes 60 songs or more during FAWM.
And then writes hundreds (plural) more throughout the year.
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