Archive for November 2020

Every song needs a strong heart If we consider the chorus to be the heart of a song, I concluded this song’s to be weak. But I think I found a way to make it stronger. This week we cover a lot of ground, so I thought maybe that called for video. Happy Thanksgiving! All…

In the end, it’s pretty simple When Marth and I first started drinking wine, we just liked what we liked and called it good. Then we started regularly going to a weekly wine tasting. A man who grew up in a winemaking family in Croatia took us under his wing and gave us “private lessons”,…

Songwriting 101: Where do we start? After reading last week’s blog, my wife Martha asked a simple question – “is this the way everyone does it”? I realized that there are a couple of points that need to be clarified before going much further. There are multiple songwriting processes There is no right or wrong…