Songwriting

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Finished Margo has Money Troubles and just blown away. Couldn’t stop reading it. Even the ending awesome. Then read about the author, Rufi Thorpe, she sold the rights and there’s […]

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I collect French versions of English songs and try learning them to help me speak French. It is a long time learning a second or third language though as a […]

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I want to include the Shirley Eikhard song Something To Talk About in the entrepreneurial course because she wrote it more than ten years before it became a hit for […]

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I saw a trailer for a new film about Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was tortured and hung by Hitler for not behaving like a Nazi. Trailer looks very Hollywood […]

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My cousin is 96 years old. If my father was alive he would have turned 100 this year. They were friends since childhood. I called him recently recalling how Gershwin […]

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Bob Dylan’s sagacity is very present in his memoir Chronicles, Volume One. I particularly liked recounting the Oh Mercy sessions with Danny Lanois, who urged Dylan to delve into weightier […]

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Richard Sherman died two weeks ago. He and his brother Robert were composers for a bunch of Disney hits particularly Mary Poppins. I was in Los Angeles when that doc […]

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It is very useful in writing to suspend judgement and pour out content even if you suspect it is horrible content and not up to scratch. It is just filling […]

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Considering the students I teach constantly privilege hip hop over everything else, I start thinking naturally about the structures and the creativity of these forms. One thing I especially enjoy […]

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The greatest gift an artist could give another artist, taking them on the road and sharing their audience. Natalie Merchant did that for Tracy Chapman.  Fast Car would not have […]