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Northern California Rain

Here’s a raw iPhone recording of one of my recent originals. I’m not sure how to classify this one… maybe just generic Americana? It’s one of those that just came to me, so I wrote it without worrying too much about its commercial appeal. Sometimes songs get started for me from a melody or lyric [...]

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Austin Songwriters Group Symposium

This past weekend I attended the annual Austin Songwriters Group Symposium for the first time. It was their 6th year to host the event, and apparently it’s grown quite a bit since the beginning. The symposium consists of a variety of concurrent classes, song pitch & critique sessions and a few panels about the business [...]

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Forever and Ever, Amen

A friend of mine suggested I learn Randy Travis’s version of “Forever and Ever, Amen,” and being as it was a song I already had thought of learning, it seemed like a good fit for my next song study. This #1 hit was written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz[1], a duo with an impressive [...]

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