Use your original songs and content: Using your own songs, original music, or royalty-free music is the only way to ensure that the original artist does not obtain copyright strikes on their channel. You can use royalty-free music as a backdrop to your own lyrics and video content. Fair ...
Cherry’svocalsaren’t abnormally high, nor are they low. They sit nicely in that baritone range. Now, if you want to sing the chorus an octave up from where it sits, that will take a little more effort. But the lead vocals in the song are clearly in the same general range througho...
This is a great way to think about a cover, too: as importing someone else’s song into your style. Playing a cover shouldn’t feel like dressing up as another artist; it should be a chance to share another facet of who you are. For an example, look no further thanThompson’s own ...
But cover songs are special. Instead of recording the work of a songwriter, a piece unheard by the public until it’s recorded and released and/or performed publicly, the reimagining of previously released records by a new artist brings new life and new magic. A cover song ...
The 1970s brought us some of country music’s greatest hits. Fromtop starslike Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton toone-hit wonders, this decade had it all. The list includes chart-toppers, amazing covers, and songs that crossed into pop. Some tunes you’ll know by heart. Others may be new...
Few songs have defined an artist as clearly as this Willie Dixon song did for Muddy Waters. Its stop-time arrangement was innovative for a blues song in 1954, but it’s the eternal swagger of the lyric that really grabs hold: The singer is so powerful, especially with the opposite sex,...
Then finally, I went to LA., and I had one session with David Hodges and another artist/writer named Leland. I finally just felt safe enough, I guess, to unload, so I did. [Laughs] It's also the first time that I let myself get a little bit sav...
“The Great Pretender” can be seen as Freddie confessing the double life of the tortured artist – part confident, powerful frontman for one of the biggest bands of all time; part loner, destined to never find that one, true love with whom to share his triumphs and trials. As ever, ...
their LP titles didn't overthink the process. Typically titled after a big single (Please Please Me) or with the artist's name prominently on display (With the Beatles), it wasn't until the album format became an art form that LP titles got more creative, whether to reflect the contents...
13 Songs That Are REALLY REAL features music courtesy of AJR, Anthony Hamilton, Cheryl Lynn, Juice WRLD, Post Malone, and Smokey Robinson among others. So, why don’t you join us for the realness that is 13 Songs That Are REALLY REAL! You really won’t regret it!