Archive for 1989
JEFF GIBSON: Heavenbound’s Gibson Pens Heart Songs
No one will argue that the best songs come from the heart. Combining pure emotion with finely honed craft results in great tunes. The ability to take a feeling, develop and mold it into a poignant song is a talent that has made Jeff Gibson one of southern gospel’s most successful songwriters.
MARTIN PAGE: Page Finds Writing With Top Artists A Must
Martin Page has been in love music since he was five years old. He maintains that one of his biggest thrills is to go to Tower Records and say “Give me as much music as you can for this amount of money.
BON JOVI: Opposite Methods Result In Hit Songs
Songwriting partnerships are a lot like love; sometimes opposites attract. Such is the case with hit songwriters Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. Though each tunesmith has a somewhat different approach to the craft of songwriting, once they sit down together to write, no one can deny their power to churn out the hits.
RODNEY CROWELL: Crowell Writes On Instinctive Level
Rodney Crowell has always been known as a singer, songwriter, producer, and performer; not necessarily in that order. In fact, it seemed for a while that he was destined to be known as a songwriter who would write hits for other entertainers (“Shame On The Moon” for Bob Seger, “Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This” for Waylon Jennings, “Leavin’ Louisiana In The Broad Daylight” for The Oak Ridge Boys).
GERALD ALBRIGHT: Songs Without Lyrics Come From The Heart
Songwriters who pen both lyrics and melodies can paint images with their creative phrases and tell the listeners exactly what they want them to feel and envision. However, for instrumentalists such as Gerald Albright, the music is the sole vehicle for communicating his message effectively as the artist/songwriter’s talents earned him a Grammy nomination this year for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.
JANIS IAN: Still Learning
What do you do when you’re 19 and have done it all? You stop. You take stock.
Hobo Jim Honors Loggers With Song
Alaska is not exactly the ideal place from which to launch a recording career, but that’s exactly what singer/songwriter Hobo Jim has done. The far northern wilderness has been a valuable creative resource for him in much the same way it inspired some of the best work of novelist Jack London and poet Robert Service.
Profiting From And Protecting Your Copyright Assets
As a songwriter, the most valuable assets you own are the copyrights to the songs you create. As a copyright attorney in Nashville, TN, I am constantly being asked, “How do I protect my songs? How do I keep people from stealing my songs? How do I make money from my songs?”
DEAN DILLON: Still Having Fun Writing Country Songs
At the age of 11, Dean Dillon was inspired by the masses of stars that hang over the Smoky Mountains of his native East Tennessee to write “stars, stars that shine in the sky, how many times have you seen someone cry? Stars, stars, up there all alone, would you keep on shining if your world was gone?”
LYLE LOVETT: A View Of Life Through His Music
When Lyle Lovett was just a lad growing up in the German farming community of Klein, TX, his granddaddy laid a little homespun philosophy on him: “Even a blind hen finds a piece of corn every once in a while.”
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