In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way ar….

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to pr….

Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to w….

[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just con….

Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs an….

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes….