But Sheila Weller's candid "Girls Like Us" -- about the lives and work of Carly Simon, Carole King and Joni Mitchell -- is surprisingly stellar. Unlike far too many celebrity bios, "Girls Like Us" never settles for simple sensationalism.Cohen, Howard...
This year's Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees include iconic artists and producers like The Doobie Brothers, George Clinton and Ashley Gorley, among others.
The roster of song winners reflects changes in the music industry during the past six decades. In the ’60s and ’70s, three winners emerged from Broadway shows, but the last was in 1975. In the past couple of decades, an increasing number of song of the year winners have come from gen...
it would be a post many thousands of lines long. When we talk about 3-chord songs, we often mean these three: I-IV-V. And they account for thousands of songs. The further back you go, the more there are. It was during the 60s that songwriters developed their chord choices into some...
Historic songwriters have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a female aspiring to be a songwriter then the people below should give you inspiration. Examples include Jennifer Batten and Rurutia. While this isn't a list of all female songwriters, it does answer...
BOB CHEEVERS:615-300-1213; Austin, TX.Web. Singer/songwriter. Bob is a Texas Music Awards 2011 "Singer/songwriter Of The Year", an Emmy-winning songwriter, Kerrville winner and was opening act for Johnny Cash's final tour. Bob lives in Austin and throughout Texas and the world spinning...
When Motown moved Detroit to Los Angeles, writer/producer Frank Wilson was an integral part of the transition, joining Motown in the mid-60s at its newly opened office on the West Coast. Wilson wrote several hits, among them “Chained” (for Marvin Gaye) and “You’ve Made Me So Very ...
Pop music historians--and the charts--would beg to differ, not just with his dismissal of the vast majority of his catalogue, but with his terming the dozen best as merely “good.” Advertisement “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” . . . “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” . . . “Just...
I've been thinking, too, about the times Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Nick Drake were living in - the late '60s into the '70s. Back then, when you were alone late at night, you truly were alone. You couldn't fall down a YouTube rabbit hole of old Steve Yzerman goals, or che...
The classic roots folk artist is the most common conception of the genre. Think Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Joan Baez, or one of the best female indie singers, Joni Mitchell, for example. Indie music is a somewhat nebulous term as we often talk about here on We Are: The Guard. Traditiona...