Robert Ellis Is Ready For His Close Up
Lately, Robert Ellis has been wishing he could go out dancing more often. Though the native Texan now lives in Nashville, he’d taken to frequenting nightclubs while spending a month back in Houston...
View ArticleElise Davis
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Elise Davis moved to Nashville two and a half years ago to make it happen. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter has been releasing albums on her own since her late...
View ArticleWhen Todd Snider Met Garth Brooks: Read An Excerpt From I Never Met A Story I...
Todd Snider has always been a natural storyteller, both in his lyrics and on the stage. So it makes sense that his new book I Never Met A Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tales is a masterpiece of...
View ArticleThe Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers On Parenthood, Mary J. Blige and Naps
Becoming a mother has only made Emily Saliers, one half of folk duo Indigo Girls, feel that much more like an exposed nerve, whether she’s writing songs or responding to the steady stream of things –...
View ArticleBilly Joel Restarts The Fire
Photos by Myrna Suarez “I notice that when I wake up in the morning, I’m singing something or humming something,” says Billy Joel. “I have something going on in my head – some music, some kind of...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: PF Sloan
He’s both famous and infamous. Famous as the songwriter of many classic songs, including “Secret Agent Man,” “Eve Of Destruction” and “You Baby,” all co-written with Steve Barri. He’s infamous for...
View ArticleWith Poetic Lyrics And 5 Million YouTube Hits, Lewis Watson Has Staying Power
Lewis Watson first picked up a guitar on his sixteenth birthday. Shortly after, he began playing local gigs around England; a resident of Oxford, he would walk out to a different pub every night,...
View ArticlePassenger On “Let Her Go” and His New Album Whispers
The next time you see someone busking on a sidewalk, stop and take notice – that song you hear amid the city noise could very well be the next Billboard chart-topper. Though it may not happen often,...
View ArticleShovels & Rope: From A Scratch And A Hope
photo by Leslie Ryan McKellar Let’s talk, for a second, about shovels and rope. As tools. You might regard shovels as a device for clearing driveways after snowstorms. And you might use rope to pull a...
View ArticleMickey Newbury: Write Heart Songs, Not Clever Hooks
This article originally appeared in the January/February 1989 issue of American Songwriter. The only thing better than hearing a great Mickey Newbury song is hearing Mickey Newbury sing his great...
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