Songwriters tend to let publishers manage their music forever, and that can be a big mistake.

Jim Morrison was rock ‘n’ roll’s first self-declared poet.

Tony Joe White goes out as a groove musician-or not at all…

Anne McCue talks about L.A., Sydney, and songwriting.

Natalie Cole has always resisted categorization…

Ray LaMontagne’s alarm clock delivered a life-changing epiphany when it blared Stephen Stills’ “Treetop Flyer” at four in the morning…

Snider is proof that persistence can nudge open the right doors.

Kris Delmhorst evokes through songwriting…

Music Publishing Then & Now

Music Publishing Then & Now

For Guy Clark, the necessities of narrative provide a way out of the excesses of allegory…

On Valentine’s Day 2005, as most men their age scrambled to book last-minute dinner reservations and buy the least-mangled roses at the local Kroger, singer/songwriter Jerry Joseph and Widespread Panic bass player Dave Schools convened on a date of their own in a studio in Athens, Ga.