Archive for June, 2010
3rd Place | “A Toast”
3rd Place “A TOAST” WRITTEN BY JARED BETZ SUDBURY, MASSACHUSETTS WWW.AMERICANSONGSPACE.COM/JAREDBETZ When your cup runs dry have another drink on me Have another drink, my friend It’s been a long time and we’ve stories much to tell Stories passed between old friends So let’s drink to health and drink to wealth Drink to the memories [...]
2nd Place | “Aching Eyes”
2nd Place “ACHING EYES” WRITTEN BY ARZALA GETZ & GERRY MCWILLIAMS (SUGARPLUMS) SAN FRANCICSO, CALIFORNIA WWW.AMERICANSONGSPACE.COM/SUGARPLUMS I follow you with aching eyes As love’s last ember slowly dies No sighs, no tears, no long goodbyes We’ve done this all before Seduction lays a heavy snare Leads you where you wouldn’t dare Lays all you thought [...]
1st Place | “Someone Thinks Of You”
1st Place “SOMEONE THINKS OF YOU” WRITTEN BY JON MCLURG ELGINBURG, ONTARIO WWW.SONICBIDS.COM/JONMCLURG Look how the clock it quivers Look how the time goes fast Look how the years have made a change To all the things we thought would last We can’t afford to be wealthy From now on we must stick to what [...]
The Top Ten Country Songs Every Songwriter Should Know
To view #11-50, click here. OK, I admit it: These aren’t the best 50 country songs. In fact, I’ll submit that there is no such thing as the “best” or the “greatest” when it comes to songs. Making “Long Black Veil” arm-wrestle with “Sunday Morning Coming Down” is silly and fruitless. Championships are for sports, [...]
Nashville Rising Benefit Raises Money, Spirits
Last night’s Nashville Rising benefit concert, featuring country music’s biggest stars, was an epic affair, lasting five hours. Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Miley Cyrus, and Carey Underwood were just a few of the acts who took the stage at the Bridgestone Arena, supported by McGraw’s backing band the Dance Hall Doctors, to perform for victims [...]
Casiokids: Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar
CASIOKIDS Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar (POLYVINYL) Rating: For better or worse, music is too often described in genres. It’s just practical. In an effort to avoid the confines of genre diagnostics, artists will react by creating music in one of two ways: the first involves painstaking efforts in an attempt to be genre-less (as [...]
Street Smarts: Watch Out! They’re Out To Get You!
If you write enough hits in your life, sooner or later somebody will accuse you of plagiarism. Just an hour before I started writing this, I got a call from a friend of mine who has written some huge hits. Seems he’s been exchanging e-mails with some fool who claims that my friend and his [...]
Kris Kristofferson: Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC) Rating: The young Kris Kristofferson on the cover stares off to the left, shoulders hunched and mouth drawn, presumably looking pensive because he’s sitting for an official portrait and the atmosphere is the antithesis of stimulating. But [...]
Lyric Spotlight | July/August 2010
THE SUGARPLUMS “ACHING EYES” Written by Gerry McWilliams and Alzara Getz What inspired “Aching Eyes”? Alzara: In the early days when we first met, Gerry gave me a handheld cassette recorder to document my ideas throughout the day. I make up songs all the time, but I’m terrible about remembering them or documenting them. Gerry [...]
Darrell Scott: A Crooked Road
DARRELL SCOTT A Crooked Road (FULL LIGHT) Rating: It’s hardly surprising that Darrell Scott would need some time for himself and his music, considering how much writing and playing he does with and for others. One of his latest gigs is with Robert Plant’s Band of Joy, alongside other Americana A-listers like Buddy Miller and [...]
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