“Do you ever worry about burnout?” Theo S. Hi, Theo. That’s a great question. Burnout is something I think about a lot because I’ve had to deal with it over the course of my career, especially during my early days here in Nashville. In 2012, when I signed my first publishing deal, my calendar began […]
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One thing I love about songwriting is that everyone has their own perspective. It’s the Anaïs Nin quote: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” A tree isn’t just a tree. It’s your relationship to it. You might see an old birch along the boulevard, and someone else sees
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From the EP Wonder (2019) Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube If you’re writing a song that you can’t seem to finish, it’s easy to feel bummed out, like all the work was worthless. In 2016, Dori Marcum and I were collaborating for her artist project. If I’m remembering correctly, we spent two days trying
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“Dad.” “Daad.” “DAAAAD!” The fact that I couldn’t hear my son (he wanted a glass of water) wasn’t because I was engrossed in my phone. I wasn’t even holding my phone. I couldn’t hear him because I was replaying a loop in my brain of something I’d seen on my phone earlier, from social media.
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When inspiration strikes, where do you store your ideas? Are they all over the place? Notebooks, your phone, the back of receipts, Word documents on an old laptop? If you’re like I was, you’re about as organized as a third grader. You’ve lost so many ideas that the inspiration fairies have you on notice. If
My litmus test for sharing stuff like this is to ask, Do I completely hate this? Often the answer is Yes, and I quit–painting is for suckers. But sometimes the answer is no. So, here’s stuff I don’t completely hate. Worst-case would be that you don’t hate it either. Best case would be that some
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You’re going to have to set them. I’m sorry, but that’s pretty much the only way. Do you know why I’m writing and trying to finish this blog post right now? Because I set an arbitrary deadline to publish it for you today. Nobody told me to do that. Not the internet, not my dad,
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Safe Enough to Wander (2013) Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube “What if all the constellations were railway stations?” (First line of the song.) The obvious answer is that the stars would liquefy the railway cars due to their temperature being around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s also true that it would be difficult to fit
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Single (2021) Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube I’d had this short composition sitting around for a long time on my computer. I had no idea what it could be used for, and the chant I sort of made up kind of sounded like “heymumma-heymumma” over and over again. Here, this is it: One day
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