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.
9 articles
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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