Art of Country Songwriting Do you want to understand what makes a country song feel truly honest? The art of country songwriting comes from songs that resonate with authentic feelings and lived experience and are soothing to many listeners. It is better when each of the lyrics has a story behind it. Nashville California creates
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Earworms. Yep, that’s what they’re called. They’re those songs you hear on the radio while driving to work or to the store, and you can’t even remember what the song is actually about, but the chorus and the beat get stuck in your head. You find yourself humming along to the song. It’s driving you
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In any music genre, especially country music, you hear a lot about successful songwriters who’ve penned hit tunes. One thing you might not know, however, is that very rarely does a songwriter just fly solo. The days of Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark creating their own music start to finish, in some
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Classic country fans seem to get awfully worked up when they hear a new song drop on the radio that doesn’t growl like Conway Twitter, inflect like George Jones, or wail like Hank Williams singing the blues. “Country music is dead and gone,” they shout! “In my day, country was real country.” Well, that’s
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The vast majority of the world is religious. Over two billion people are Christians, and this is something very often reflected in good, old-fashioned American outlaw country music, whether the classic stuff from legends like Hank Williams, or even with today’s modern country radio hits, such as Blake Shelton with “God’s Country.” There are a
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The world is jam-packed with talented musicians, including lyric writers, great instrumentalists, and more. Knowing how to write a hit country song takes more than talent. All sorts of musical genres touch our lives on a daily basis, including country music, which is one of the most historic genres of American music there is. Today’s
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