Category Archives: FILL THE WELL

In this series, I ask other songwriters about their quest for inspiration and how they tackle the day-to-day tasks of writing quality, engaging songs. Behind every good song is a hard-worker. I want to know how songwriters work and how they fill their well so it never goes dry.

KEEGAN DEWITT writes a lot of music that is used in several different capacities – film scores, commercial soundtracks, introspective dance jams. In 2013 alone, he scored the Oscar Award-winning short documentary “Inocente” and took two films to the Sundance Film Festival, one of which (“This Is Martin Bonner”) would win the prestigious Audience Award. The second, “Life According To Sam” will air on HBO in the fall of ’13. He writes music on a commercial level for Facebook, Merrell, Country Time Lemonade, Amtrak, Dolby, Save The Children and more. He is an established solo artist and one half of the tropical-electro pop band WILD CUB. How does he keep it all straight? You find him very hard at work… … Continue Reading

In this series, I ask other songwriters about their quest for inspiration and how they tackle the day-to-day tasks of writing quality, engaging songs. Behind every good song is a hard-worker. I want to know how songwriters work and how they fill their well so it never goes dry.

JONNY FRITZ is an outlaw country artist who has spent a decade on the road, charming folks with his funny observations about everyday life.  Finding inspiration at a quiet booth in the back of a Waffle House, Jonny looks for songs in whatever we swept under the rug. He has shared the stage with big names (Alabama Shakes, Dawes, Deer Tick) and mastered the perfect live show, but what inspires him when he’s off the road?

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