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
Words by Roger Miller. Lyrics by Love.
ove is, even in the best circumstances, a complex thing. Good songwriters find the words to sing about it.
Great songwriters know there are no words for it. (continued)
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)
Not in Nottingham
ne of Disney's greatest soundtrack triumphs was getting Roger Miller to write and record the soundtrack to their animated version of Robin Hood.
The film doesn't hang entirely on a single star. I can't imagine the list of movies these folks have made: (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)
Caledonia, You're Calling Me
don't know if you can see
The changes that have come over me
In these last few days I've been afraid
That I might drift away
So I've been telling old stories, singing songs
That make me think about where I came from
And that's the reason why I seem
So far away today (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: Mike Debenham
chingly beautiful, deceptively effortless. Another prolific songwriter, Mike Debenham has written tunes that will live in my head forever. (continued)
