Category Archives: INSPIRATION

FILL THE WELL with RYAN HURD

April 23, 2013

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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.

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RYAN HURD is living the Nashville songwriter’s dream – the young writer signed a publishing deal with Universal last summer. Some readers have expressed that they are just songwriters (not artists) looking for a publishing deal. So today we pull back the (Manuel-sequined-&-embroidered) curtain to life as a Music Row songwriter. Ryan shares his journey to a coveted seat in a Music Row writing room and how he stays inspired to write 5 days a week…

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FILL THE WELL with KEEGAN DEWITT

April 16, 2013

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

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FILL THE WELL with TRENT DABBS

April 9, 2013

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.

TRENT DABBS has released seven studio albums, started Sugar & the Hi-Lows, a swing-pop band with Amy Stroup, and logs hours every week co-writing with both upcoming & established Nashville writers. Trent co-wrote the song “Undermine” with Kacey Musgraves which you might have heard in this season of Nashville sung by Hayden Panettiere. “Undermine” debuted at no. 7 on the iTunes country charts and sold 22,000 copies in the first week. Trent has had over 40 film & TV placements and is currently working on a new album. For Trent, songwriting is a full-time job — read how this professional stays inspired.

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