“People from my school went on to colleges and the 9 to 5 life but it wasn’t for me,” says Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood. “In America, if you don’t follow that path, you either have to start a business, break the law, or be a self-sustaining artist. All are more time consuming and stressful [...]

Sometimes a great song is defined as much by what the lyric doesn’t say as what it does. One of the advantages of writing a song as opposed to writing literature, painting a portrait or building a house is the extraordinary context that the music provides for the lyric. Sometimes good melody and chord structure [...]