Hello folks,
Hope everyone is having a good holiday season. I don't say that for any political correctness reason, other than people celebrate a lot of different things and frankly I am covering things from Thanksgiving on into the New Year. One of the things that make me sort of nuts is all the Birthdays, anniversery's births, deaths, special occassions, whatever, that we have to cover now in our "facebook 24 hour a day culture." Can't keep up with all the stuff we are supposed to recognize or what is going to be offensive or taken wrong.
So I just hope you are all doing well.
I have not commented much lately, because frankly, there is just not a lot to comment on. Thank you Phil, and Kevin, for posting the things about songs and the discussions that go on. And thanks Kevin for posting the top 25 songs of the year. As usual, while I don't know every one of them, I have heard most of them a few times here and there as people talk about them, hear them on the radio, or just the general world, hard to escape a lot of things.
I know this forum seems to always be about Nashville, and for much of it, is. But my main concern is just writing songs about things that will interest people, will bring people's attention to whatever you are doing, and trying to help you all along if you want to do something. When we have discussions on certain songs, I try to comment if there is anything to add, I feel you might not be seeing. That is why my focus many times will be "behind the scenes" on songs because most people never realize how important that is. While the theme of so many people like NSAI might be "It all begins with a song" the facts are that it is only the beginning. has to have a good beginning of course, but there are hundreds and thousands of driving forces "behind the scenes" that are just as important.
We always talk about the artists, and yes, they have to have something special that makes people believe in them. And it is not always apparent to all of us. Why things like analyzing songs, structure, videos, etc. are interesting but sometimes misleading. Sometimes you just like something, it speaks to you, and others might not, or other things that work, the world might connect with them, and you are totally oblivious.
What can you say, somethings connect with people, some things don't.
As for my own current activities, like the entire town and business of Nashville, tends to drop to nothing during the Holidays right before Thanksgiving. The business cycles of the town are over for the year, the pitches are done, some recording is done, but mostly it is to recover and recharge for next year. It picks back up around the second week of January. Very normal. I have performed on quite a few shows, several with new artists I am just beginning to work with. As most writers here, that is the whole deal, who you are writing with and what you are doing.
There is activity with Big Ed on 24 NOTES. He is promoting his own band, which features him as the behind the scenes producer and writer, doing the right thing by putting something together around songs he has written. Hope you guys will support him by visiting his web site.
Tina and I are getting ready to go to CALIFORNIA, after Christmas and visit with my California crew in Orange Country. We will be having a couple of parties out there so David Sanchez if you are listening, make sure you contact me about coming up.
Tina and I are getting ready to go to CALIFORNIA, after Christmas and visit with my California crew in Orange Country. We will be having a couple of parties out there so David Sanchez if you are listening, make sure you contact me about coming up.
As far as the main focus of this thread, your personal writing, write what you like. It is really not much harder to figure out. If something ignites a passion in you, write it. If it is folk, rock, blues, country, techno, dance, even the dreaded "R" word, Rap. Just write what ever gets a rise out of you. Make it good, and find an audience for it.
You don't choose music, music chooses you.
Stay at it and if you want to talk about anything, let me know, I'm always around.
MAB
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