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An "inside" blog written by hit songwriter Craig Bickhardt who has had his songs recorded by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Art Garfunkel, Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, Waylon Jennings, David Wilcox, Poco and may other artists.

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  • Stirring the Imagination

    Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 10:30 in Culture, imagination, story songs, songwriting history

    I arrived in Nashville to write songs for the first time on the day that Marty Robbins died. It was December 8, 1982. The timing of my arrival seemed uncanny to me because Marty was one of my biggest boyhood heroes. How this came...

  • Finding The Reverence

    Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 10:36 in influences, songwriting history

    A friend of mine recently went to hear Jimmy Webb speak about songwriting. Jimmy talked about how the American songwriter is in decline because younger writers no longer study their creative ancestors.We can debate whether this is a temporary trend ...