Hey folks,
Wanted to shout out to the Rampers who have been in Nashville for the Rampbash. I missed it this year as I was booked out of town and have been packed up here in town while you have all been here. Hope you had a good time and be careful going home. Nashville is always here, hope your experiences were all good.
I did get to see Fast Eddie Minyard and spent Monday actually meeting and working with his daughter Allison. She is a beautiful, talented young woman who was a great experience working with and one of the things that makes what I do so rewarding. She has never really written before and Eddie wanted her to have the "complete' Nashville experience.
We were able to write a song, "AT LEAST I TRIED" about her experiences in moving to the West Coast a while ago, finding out the "land of constant summer" was really not for her,and that what she was actually was looking for was right back at home.
Was a fun song to write as she said almost every line we used in the song. She was a very good co-writer and participated greatly in the process. To me, every aspect of co-writing is the PARTICIPATION. Being able to discuss what someone is passionate about and taking their exact words for the lines make it be much more realistic, and allows the singer to have THEMSELVES INVESTED in the song. It is THEIR STORY. THEIR EMOTIONS. THEIR ADVENTURES.
This is what I have always talked about when it comes to "pitching songs" and why the "inside cut" those written by the artists themselves or their tight circles writing FOR those artists, have such an inside shot at being recorded and why it is essential to include artists in the writing of songs. Because they live it. And in my experience it makes for better songs.
Today I hope to have Allison sing it on the Sam's Jam's show at Bobby's Idle Hour. That will be the COMPLETE Nashville experience. Great girl. Great talent. And thank you Eddie for letting me work with her.
Have a good day folks.
MAB
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