There's a tempo they want. A sound quality they want. There are subjects they won't air. The music industry (like any other successful industry) is about formulas and rules. Follow them, and you will succeed in it as a songwriter and, for better or worse, likely remain a part of it for life. Incidentally, the formula looks like this: This Brightness plus that Tempo plus this …
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how to tune a guitar
You go for a drive with the top down and let the guitar sit in the passenger seat. Make the first left, that way your destination is farther and the road to it prettier, the blossoms absurdly violet. Lose your location. Fiddle with the radio dial. Brush past the popular music stations to the one of choice. Pause there just to adore …
unwanted things
There is no burden like unwanted things. Which is sad because, against all real evidence, things have feelings too. They don’t love in the human way, still: That blue thrift shop sweater out at the elbows has a story. I try to imagine the places it has been, and who wore it before it was mine. Those rundown cowboy boots slouched in the closet talk in …
approximately forever
An approximately three-minute song is as fleeting as a galloping horse against infinite time. But it can capture forever a moment that’s gone forever.
glitter pony
A horse to bear me along / Making me better than what I am Photo by Jessica
ancient thing
I am so blessed to have discovered this dignified, ancient, elegant thing, making up songs. And to know that every day my heart moves in its little sideways thrust, this is the thing I will do. Photo by Jessica
