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Ninety Mile Wind
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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.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'writing process'
A Blissful Surrender
Do you want to write songs, or do you need to write them?If writing great songs were only as simple as wanting to do it, we'd all have dozens of them. It requires more commitment than that. If you're blown away by a song you hear or a book you read...
All The Spells
The instinct is a mystery. We can't justify it, can't explain it, or defend it. We just feel it. A song pulls us into itself before we have time to over-analyze what we’re doing. It’s the mysticism of songs that compels us to search for n...
Deep Creativity
We multi-task our days away in a whirlwind of keyboard activity, and we’re even programmed to enjoy our interruptions-- that’s what the researchers have discovered. Interruptions increase adrenaline and the kick is addicting says author Maggie J...
The Figure A Song Makes (Homage to Robert Frost)
I re-read one of my favorite creative essays recently. It holds up well, and it applies perfectly to great songwriting."The artist must value himself as he snatches a thing from some previous order in time and space into a new order with not so much ...
The Madness
I've been inspired lately by something I read in a NY Times article by Roseanne Cash. She tells a story about sending one of her meticulously vetted lyrics to the late John Stewart for his opinion. John replied to her, "But Rose, where's the madness...
