What happens when your childhood dream kind of comes true? I’ve spent the last 20 years writing songs, recording albums, playing shows, licensing music for film and TV, and somehow paying the bills doing what I love. But this isn’t a fame story. (If you’ve ever tried to drop my name, you’ve likely gotten crickets.) […]
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I don’t think this is a very good song. In terms of craft, anyway. It’s not the kind of song people will cover. It’s cryptic and vague, and the chorus isn’t particularly novel. So why record it? I don’t know. It has a feeling I like. As much as I talk about songwriting and encourage
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I remember starting this one with a guitar part and filling in the melody with gibberish words—just vowel sounds and a cadence that felt right. In other words, I had no idea what the song would be about, and I didn’t care. I was painting. Enjoying the process of discovery. But I also know I
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Notes on Writing “Forgiveness” One time our family rented a car that came with SiriusXM radio. Instead of searching around for something we liked, we just let the station keep playing whatever it wanted. At some point, this song came on by a band I can no longer remember. But in the middle of the
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Notes on writing “Home Means You” I was trying to write a non-cliché song about home. I’ve written dozens of home songs and will probably write dozens more. The whole “a house isn’t a home” idea has certainly been covered before, so I was trying to find a small twist on it. I think the
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