American Songwriter
American Songwriter is a bi-monthly magazine, launched in 1984, with in-depth interviews with up-and-coming, established and legendary songwriters. It also covers recording technology and reports on the business of music publishing with interviews and insight from publishers, producers and other industry professionals.
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Interview by Holly Gleason, American Songwriter, 2 January 2009
HE IS sitting right there on the sidewalk, eating red snapper, heavy-lidded eyes taking in the world around him and engaging with the various people ...
Journey: How 'Don't Stop Believin'' Became Such a Monster Hit
Report by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, November 2010
POP STARS OF disparate ages and musical styles, when forced to share a stage, can be as awkward together as "strangers waiting up and down ...
Buddy Holly, The Rolling Stones: Behind The Song: 'Not Fade Away'
Essay by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, 16 March 2011
AT THIS YEAR'S Grammys, 67-year-old Mick Jagger was out from the get-go to tell the audience how it was gonna be. He wasn't ceding anything ...
Review by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, May 2011
IT'S SURPRISING THE American Association of Anesthesiologists hasn't chosen Emmylou Harris as the best voice to hear when awakening from surgery. ...
Review by Steven Rosen, American Songwriter, June 2011
LIKE THE LIGHTNING BUG she sings about on Pint of Blood — in a hauntingly poetic image on the song 'Gold and Yellow' — Jolie ...
John Fullbright: From the Ground Up
Review by Steven Rosen, American Songwriter, May 2012
ONE NEEDN'T BE a Fulbright Scholar to recognize that this first album from 23-year-old John Fullbright, an Oklahoma singer-songwriter whose hometown happens to be the ...
Donald Fagen, Steely Dan: Donald Fagen
Interview by Paul Zollo, American Songwriter, January 2013
On the occasion of Donald Fagen's latest non-Steely Dan effort, Sunken Condos, we sat down to talk about this new classic, and the previous ones. ...
Delines, The : The Delines: Colfax
Review by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, 17 June 2014
DENVER'S COLFAX AVENUE is one of America's great urban streets, as important to understanding the Modern West as the Monument Valley of John Ford's westerns ...
James McMurtry: Landscape Artist
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 5 March 2015
MOST OF JAMES MCMURTRY's songs are populated by rural and small-town characters, but these are not pastoral hymns to the easygoing joys of country living. ...
Blind Boy Fuller: Piedmont Blues' Notorious B.I.G.
Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 13 May 2015
WHERE DID the Rolling Stones get the title for their 1970 live album, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out? From Blind Boy Fuller's 1938 single of the ...
Overview by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 8 October 2015
RUTH UNGAR understands that a lot of people can't tell the difference between bluegrass and old-time music. Anytime they see a group with a fiddle ...
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, November 2018
MANY NEW ORLEANS pianists are better known — Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Harry Con- nick Jr., Professor Longhair, Fats Domino and Art Neville — but those ...
Grace Potter: With Daylight Grace Potter Returns (from a Messy Midnight)
Interview by Holly Gleason, American Songwriter, 27 November 2019
GRACE POTTER IS BACK, and you can blame it on Gwen Stefani. ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 7 October 2020
THE TITLE OF the first album featuring Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite as co-leaders is called 100 Years of Blues. That's a reference to the ...
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, American Songwriter, 15 March 2021
The documentary movie, Without Getting Killed or Caught, is as much about Susanna Clark as it is about her husband Guy. Which makes sense, because ...
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