I’m laid back in the dentist chair having my teeth cleaned. The radio is on the PA system. It’s country music. After several songs I realize: 1) I can’t tell who any of the singers are; 2) they are all more »
Category: Other songwriters
about other songwriters
Style, originality and the passing of JJ Cale
I have often been told I’m not playing a certain song the way it was originally done. To which I reply: Good. I have laughed at such criticism and said I’m not good enough to imitate the original. And there more »
Slaid Cleaves: a songwriter who just keeps getting better
Performing Songwriter is one of the best sites for discovering songwriters or reading about new projects of well-known artists. Lydia Hutchinson, the publisher and editor, does a fantastic job of highlighting the famous as well as the lesser known. My more »
Jason Isbell moves into rarified territory of great songwriters with “Southeastern”
If there is a songwriter out there creating as many great songs as Jason Isbell has written in the past couple of years, I don’t know him or her. When a songwriter has two songs as strong as “Codeine” and more »
Jonathan Byrd is the real deal
Jonathan Byrd flies under too many radars for reasons that are beyond me. That the taste masters of folk and Americana revere him is testament to the fact that they let the music speak for itself, irrespective of pop charts more »
Merle
The guy who started me on the path to songwriting was Merle Haggard. While others in my college dorm were intently listening the to Doors, the Stones and Led Zeppelin, I was hiding out in the laundry room listening to more »