VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 SPRING 2019
DSA EVENTS CRITIQUE WINNERS OPEN MIC Every Third Thursday Open Mic Craig Langford is the Vern Dailey Award winner Dunn Brothers Coffee House, for Songwriter of the Year 3725 Belt Line Road, Addison Craig Langford won the Songwriter of the Year Award for the highest scored songs of the meeting critiques in 2018. SHOWCASES For the second year in a row. Every Second Wednesday Born into a musical family, he grew up with two grand pianos in his living room. He was the Texas All State French horn player Opening Bell 7-9, Free but decided to pass on scholarship offers at graduation… and took a left turn to joined the Navy, who, in an incredible stoke of Every Fourth Thursday genius, stationed him in Hawaii for his entire tour of duty. He Love & War 7-9 Free played music all over Honolulu until his honorable discharge, and Craig Langford he returned to Texas to begin playing professionally. He subsequently moved his family to Nashville, where he toured with artists like Trisha Yearwood/Garth Brooks.While he MONTHLY WORKSHOPS still loves playing in bands, songwriting has grown to be a large part of his SONG SWAP WORKSHOPS musical passion. He enjoys boating, working on his old truck, doing string instrument repair, and spending time with his four grown children and three Songwriters perform their songs for peer grandchildren! review, bring your guitar, or keyboard DSA President Michael Brandenberger wins Song of The Year with “A Visitors welcome, free. Time For Love”. Craig Langford came in Second with “That’s Just What https://dallassongwriters.org/song-swap-workshops/ I’ll Do”. Rio King came in 3rd place with “Brandy Blues.” The late Vern Dailey was named Dallas Songwriter a record four times, maybe more, who knows. He was short, shy, vain, funny, poetic—in short, a Every First Monday Meetup real stinker, and we miss him every month. Half Price Books NE Michael Brandenberger 2018 SONG CONTEST WINNER JOHN LATINI from 7-9, Free 1. Pull Me Up by John Latini, Ypsilanti, MI FIRST THURSDAY MEETING 2. All the Lovin' I Need by Louis Cates, Alexandria, VA 3. Broken Horses by Scott Thorn, Colorado, CA Guest Speaker & Song Critiques See page 4 & 5 for winners and details https://dallassongwriters.org/dsa-meeting/ See back page for details 2018 SUMMER LYRIC CONTEST WINNER 1. Come Rain Come Shine by Martin Robley. Ballajura Western Australia martinrobley.com Song Contest Winner LYRIC CONTEST 2. Till We All Drove It by TY Nelson, Billings, MT John Latini Deadlines quarterly. Win cash & 3. Fireworks Don't Last Very Long, Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ recognition. Entry Fee $10 details at HM A Seat At The Table by Ross Miller, Newton. MA https://dallassongwriters.org/dsa-lyric-contest// HM Rockin” Reindeer by Melissa Standifird, Dallas Tx. See more about last years lyric contest winners on page 7.
SONG CONTEST 2019 Dallas Songwriters Hall of Fame on April Opens June 1st 20 https://dallassongwriters.org/dsa-annual- The 2019 Hall of Fame ceremony was held on Saturday April 20 song-contest/ at the Historic Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas. Four years ago DALLAS INTERNATIONAL we began to honor famous singer/songwriters with roots in the Dallas/Fort Worth area through an induction into the Dallas GUITAR FESTIVAL May 3 - 5 Songwriters Association Hall of Fame. In the previous years we http://www.guitarshow.com/ have honored legends such as T-Bone Walker, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Freddie King, Trini Lopez, Sam Samudo (Sam the WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL Sham), Cindy Walker, Gus Levine, Al Johnson, Bruce Channel, CITYLINE STAGE May 17 - 19 Jerry Lynn Williams, Gary Nicholson, Delbert McClinton and the From L-R Barbe McMillen, Whit Nightcaps. Hyde, Rising Stars Caitlin King, http://www.wildflowerfestival.com/ Lilly Harrigan, & Adelyn Parks This years honorees included Steve Miller, Stephen Stills, Boz (The Sound Foundation) Paul DEEP ELLUM ARTS ESTIVAL Skaggs, and Larry Henley and Rod Phelps. The DSA's initiative Zander, Allen Larson performing SONS OF HERMANN HALL Ap 5-7 this year was to encourage young aspiring musicians to celebrate For What It’s Worth our legends with their performances of songs made famous by our http://www.wildflowerfestival.com/ inductees. We reached out to the local music schools and asked for auditions at each school for the honor to perform. These students were backed up by the DSA Hall of Fame Band consisting of DSA SONGWRITERS NOTES members. See page 3 for this years inductees and a recap. SPRING 2019 ABOUT DALLAS SONGWRITERS BENEFITS
MISSION STATEMENT Monthly Workshops which feature guest speakers from We exist to enhance the personal growth and all fields of the music industry. professionalism of our members through the • Critique sessions that give honest, creative, and following means: helpful advice on improving writing style and technique. • Provide a practical forum for songwriters/artists • Showcases that are designed to provide a platform for the performance of original songs. These events on common standards and expectations of the embrace a variety of musical styles and cultural music industry. backgrounds. • Sharpen required competencies for excelling in • Seminars and workshops throughout the year which the songwriting profession. feature faculty from major educational institutions, • Serve as a forum for networking among peers respected industry businesses, and aware winning and with industry experts to generate career songwriters. opportunities. •Songwriters Notes, a newsletter which features local, • Serve as a non-political advocate for songwriters national, and international information valuable to and performers in liaison with peer organizations songwriters. throughout the country. •Song contests which provide an opportunity to award MEMBER PROFILE prizes and scholarships to songwriters. Social interaction and networking with other arts related organizations and Includes established independent and staff industry professionals. Many of these activities have been songwriters, performing artists, people actively sponsored or cosponsored by local and national music seeking entry into the industry, entertainment law industry businesses. practitioners; and others who are simply interested • Community service through our programs Songwriters in songwriting and/or performing as a hobby. Connecting to Seniors.
Songwriter Groups- supportive environment, preparing you for the cruel world What’s in it for Me? by Barbara McMillen of the Simon Cowells. They give you key industry people I was sitting next to DSA member Tom Douglas to explain the business of songwriting and entertainment when he pitched his songs to Paul Worley at a songwriting attorneys to explain the contract jargon. seminar. Tom’s songwriting career took off when Collin They also offer performing songwriters supportive Ray recorded his song “Little Rock” which was on the tape venues to hone your performance skills and try out your that Paul took back to Nashville. Tom has since won a new songs. Furthermore, Your group will act as an Song of the Year Grammy for “The House That Built Me.” advocate for your profession and rights. This is so I watched DSA member and former President, Ron Grimes, important during these times when copyright values are approach a very young LeAnn Rhimes at a DSA monthly being challenged. Together we stand, divided we fall. meeting where she came looking for songs for her first In closing, Songwriter Groups consist of folks like you album. Co-writing with LeAnn, Ron got his first cut on her from all levels of competency who are committed to first album. They still remain close friends. I encouraged protecting the rights and future of the profession of DSA Member Rory Lee Feek (“Some Beach” recorded by songwriting, and to educate, elevate, and celebrate the Blake Sheldon) to showcase at the Dallas Songwriters songwriter and to act as a unifying force within the music Seminar where he made important industry contacts that community and the community at large. If you are not led to a staff writing deal at Harlan Howard Music. He’s already a member of one, you are missing out on a big still writing in Nashville, had his own reality show about boost in your career and the chance to know other weirdos his farm just outside of Nashville, and was half of the duo like you. Join one today! Joey + Rory. Amber Dotson, a demo singer for many DSA members Education • Networking • Encouragement • Advocacy and a member herself also showcased at one of the The Dallas Songwriters is a non-profit 501 C3 organization seminars. Amber was a Capitol recording artist in Nashville dedicated to providing information about the craft and business of for a time. And the list goes on. No doubt songwriters are songwriting. All styles of music are welcome in the DSA, and membership includes writers of all ages. DSA monthly activities connected to music industry contacts through events held include meetings with guest speakers, song critiques and by songwriter groups. Networking is a key to success in performance showcases that are open to the public. In addition, the DSA supports and promotes workshops and contests and any business and co-writing can get you a step up in the publishes a monthly newsletter. For more information, visit business songwriting. www.dallassongwriters.org. Moreover, songwriting groups prepare songwriters for http://www.meetup.com/dallas-Songwriters-Association/ that pivotal moment through encouragement, and educa- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dallas-Songwriters-Association/ tion. These groups work hard to bring in the best teachers 104739376244963 of the craft for workshops, and offer song critiques in a 2 SONGWRITERS NOTES SPRING 2019 COVER INVESTOR STORY NEWSLETTER- ARNOLD NEWSLETTERPanelists MCCULLER ISSUE Bios DSA ISSUEN°3 - Gary FOURTH N°3 Nicholson ANNUAL HALL PANELISTS OF FAME BIOS SPRING APRIL 2019 2011 Larry Henley was born in the deep heart Texas Stephen Stills was born in Dallas, Tx. Stills is one town of Arp and raised in Odessa, Tx, He passed of rock music's most enduring figures with a career now away in 2014 in Nashville, Tn at the age of 77. He spanning six decades, multiple solo works, and four was buried in Gilmer, Tx. Henley also spent time hugely influential groups – Manassas, Buffalo in Dallas, Ft Worth and Shreveport before moving Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN), and Crosby, to Nashville. He has earned dual fame as both Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). He has been inducted into singer and songwriter. the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice for Buffalo He was the lead singer of pop group the Newbeats, Springfield and CSN, is a member of the Songwriter's formed in the 1964, singing in a distinctive falsetto. [4] Hall of Fame, and is a BMI Music Icon (with CSN). As The group had two hits that charted in the top 20 renowned for his instrumental virtuosity as for writing of Billboard magazine, with one of them, "Bread era-defining anthems, Stills is ranked #28 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 and Butter", reaching No. 2 on the Billboard charts and selling over a million Greatest Guitarists of All Time, calling his acoustic picking on "Suite: Judy Blue copies. He released a solo album in the 70’s and began songwriting. Henley's Eyes" "a paragon of unplugged beauty." Three of Stills' albums are among early success as a pop star may have tempted him to rest on his laurels. But his Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Buffalo Springfield Again, curiosity and passionate need to write songs have garnered him top honors Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Déjà Vu. In 2013, Stills released Carry On, a four-CD including CMA Song of the Year, ACM Song of the Year, NSAI Songwriter of anthology capturing the remarkable scope of his career using 83 tracks (25 the Year and various other achievements. His songs have been covered by unreleased) to retrace the musical paths he's explored. Stills biggest hit was many artists including Tanya Tucker who cut on “Lizzy And The Rain Man” “Love The One Your With.” He has recently toured, solo, with Judy Collins and which was inspired by a Bert Lancaster movie. Henley’s song, “He’s A with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Stills helped raise over $320,000 to benefit Autism Heartache”, was Janie Frickie’s 3rd number one hit on the country charts. Speaks' research. Henley’s biggest hit, has evolved into a familiar slogan. It was included in the film, “Beaches” and was a U.S. #1 hit for Bette Midler . Its proximity to the six million mark in radio airplays makes it hard to ignore. A standard at When Rod Phelps was at Baylor U, he started weddings and funerals alike, it has also been material for a Playboy cartoon. booking acts like Bob Hope and Brother Dave Gardner. The song earned Henley the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 1989, It was this activity that induced his cousin at OU, to and Bette Midler the Record of the Year award. The vast spectrum of artists call him about a singer who was playing the "Strip" in who have recorded it gives testimony to its cultural magnitude. Stillwater, OK and really liked by all of the students. Rod went to a place called Wild Willie's on a Friday Steve Miller was a mainstay of the San Francisco night and listened to the guy. Rod liked the guy so music scene that upended American culture in the late much that he arranged to record his songs and sent him '60s. He grew up in Dallas, Tx and attended St Marks to Nashville with his credit card and the demo tape. high School and Woodrow Wilson High School. His The songwriter said, "Rod, I'm going to have to use father, Sonny, had many distinguished musicians come to these credit cards because I don't have any money". the house to record and Steve absorbed much from many Rod told him that he had given them to him to use, and "greats" right in his living room, such as T-Bone Walker, all Rod asked was that he (1) go to Nashville, (2) become a star, (3) pay him Charles Mingus and Tal Farlow. Walker taught Steve how back when he could, and to (4) thank him when he won his first Grammy. to play his guitar behind his back and also with his teeth Well sir, Garth Brooks went to Nashville, became a star, paid Rod back when he in 1952. His parents were jazz aficionados - not to could, but never thanked him when he won his first Grammy. You can read about mention close friends of Les Paul and Mary Ford - so, as this in "Chicken Soup for the Country Soul". a budding guitarist, Miller absorbed valuable lessons from that musical The same thing happened more recently when Rod's nephew asked him to listen tradition. to a female act playing at the Plano Love &War. Rod went to listen to her, and While attending high school, Steve formed his first band, "The Marksmen". she wasn't all that good but other act on the bill who did impress him was a He taught his older brother Buddy to play the bass and also instructed his young blond from Lindale, Texas named Miranda. Rod got a couple of demos classmate, future musical star Boz Scaggs, a few guitar chords so that he could from her dad, Rick Lambert, and sent them to his contacts in Nashville, mostly join the band. He was inducted into Woodrow's Hall of Fame in 2009. label heads. The rest is history. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of their class Over the years Rod has represented Vern Lundquest, Bob Gooding, Jose Trevino, of 2016 for crafting a brand of pure pop that was polished, exciting and Howard Cosel and Don Meredith. irresistible - and that dominated radio with an endless flow of hits in the 70’s. Other folks Rod has helped over the years include Chris Cagle (whom Rod hired Here are a few of those hits. as nanny because he said he had no money, no job, and no place to live) and Rory Lee Feek (former DSA member of Joey and Rory fame), whom Rod moved Boz Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas (at that to Nashville, along with his two daughters. Rod helped many other DSA members as well, including David Banning, Dickie Kaiser and Steve Hood. time a farm town), just north of Dallas. He also attended St. Mark's School of Texas, where he met Steve Miller. In 1959, he became the vocalist for Miller's band, the Marksmen. The pair later VP Bobby Montgomery presenting attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison the Community Service Award to Rod together, playing in blues bands like the Ardells Phelps. and the Fabulous Knight Trains. Later Scaggs headed for the booming psychedelic music center of San Francisco in 1967. Linking up with Steve Miller again, he appeared on the Steve Miller Band's first two albums, Children of the Future and Sailor in 1968. Scaggs secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968, and later signed with Columbia Records where he recorded Silk Degrees. The album reached #2 on the US Billboard 200, and #1 in a number of other countries. The ballad from that album, "We're All Alone”, sung by Rita Coolidge hit #1 on the Adult Contemporary charts in Hall of Fame Rising Star 1977No Contact Band - Performers - Sophie Rapattoni, Lily Whit Hyde, Anarola (Dallas School of Rock) Craig St Clair, Caitlin King, Lilly Harrigan, & Allen Larson, Adelyn Parks (The Sound Barbara McMillen, Foundation) Caroline Bowen (Bach Ian Dickson, To Rock) & Matt Kleibrink (Full Paul Zander. Dose Music)
SONGWRITERS NOTES 3 SPRING 2019 SONGWRITERS NOTES SPRING 2019 2018 SONG CONTEST WINNER JOHN LATINI WINS WITH “PULL ME UP”
Grand Prize winner, John Latini, was a semifinalist in the categories of Americana, Christian, Pop and Singer Songwriter. His grand prize winning song, "Pull Me Up”, won in two categories. A three time Detroit Blues Champion, John Latini is riding the wave from his last release and 5th Cd, his first full length blues recording “The Blues Just Makes Me Feel Good”. Within 10 days of its release to radio, it garnered 41 shining reviews including one in No Depression, “Vocalist/guitarist/ songwriter John Latini's first full length release is a shack-shakin', window bustin' blues party.” The album remained on the top 50 Blues Album Chart for 7 months in 2017, and took the #23 John Latini with Privia spot for the Top 200 Contemporary Blues Album Keyboard at his home in releases of 2017. Michigan.
1. How and when did you become a songwriter? 4. How did your DSA song contest winner “Pull Me Up“ come about? I began writing my first songs in High School. ( See Grand Prize Judge Roy Elkin's comments on this song at https:// dsasongcontest.blogspot.com/p/2018-song-contest-judge-roy-elkins.html ) 2. Are there any songwriters that influenced your writing? Do you do Now my contest winner is a good example of my “process" in action. any co-writing? Pull Me Up is a song about hardship (in this case flooding) threatening Both of my older brothers are wonderful songwriters. My oldest, your livelihood and/or lifestyle and indeed, threatening your own Mike, began using me as his "litmus paper" when I was about 8 years loyalty to your “ancestral” livelihood and/or lifestyle (in this case old. He would test his latest songs out on me and I would memorize farming) and confronting the type of person you are in the face of the words right there on the spot. Later on, when I was able to play those circumstances. a little bit, I would “figure out the chords of his songs to the best of The idea came to me from my observations of the annual flooding of my memory” … in some cases I wasn’t even close, but I had those the Mississippi River in SW Illinois, and the reflections on what effect words! My brother Joe’s songs were always more complicated and that flooding would have each year on these farmers. therefore, safe from my “re-writes”. To this day, they both write I got the first verse fairly quickly and although it took me a long time some of the best songs I’ve ever heard! to actually finish the song, the strength of the first verse was enough … plus they were turning me onto Lennon/McCartney, Bob Dylan, Paul to keep me excited over a longer period of time (another factor that Simon, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, … then I contributed to this idea resurfacing time and again until its found Joni Mitchell, John Hiatt and Elvis Costello ... completion, is that I visit this area once or twice a year … naturally The songs of those artists filled my head and the manner in which the ideas would swirl around with every visit). they wrote - wherein not everything about the story is revealed upon “ Water’s in my cornfield and lightning took my barn the first listen - filled my imagination! Telephone pole’s in three foot of water and the service is long gone I have had occasion to write with a few other individuals and I have River Street is what it claims, flowing deep and brown found it both gratifying and frustrating … I think it can take some But there’s one small piece of good news, time to develop a synergy or “mutual process”. Ain’t no-one in this town that’s not too tall to drown” So that's the initial verse that kept me going … I think it’s strong from 3. What is your writing process, i.e. do you start with words, melody the standpoint of it’s imagery - you can “see” what happened in the or something else? “images”. The story is being “shown” to you here, rather than My writing process varies, but it usually begins with a lyrical or “told” to you. I also like the use of all of the “negatives” in the last musical “nugget” that I believe has promise - whether or not it’s a line. This illustrates the idea of “peeling away the layers of the phrase or simply a collection of syllables - if I like the initial idea, onion” - not everyone is going to catch that on their initial listen. “play on words’, riff or whatever, I will let it stew in my conscious and subconscious mind for a bit, revisiting it a lot in it’s inception. 5. What advice do you give to people who want to be songwriters or This is generally a natural course of the idea exciting me to the improve their songwriting? extent that I replay it in my mind over and over. If that excitement I advise folks to write because they love it. Try to put some real ebbs naturally before I have anything resembling a song, then the substance in there. Think in terms of a great book you’ve read, or a idea stands a smaller and smaller chance of seeing daylight over great movie you’ve seen … you enjoy intrigue, suspense, romance - time. If, however, the “delta is fertile” and I begin to see progress in all of that, yes, but the author of the book or the director of the the form of a direction, story, verse, chorus or otherwise, I pursue it, movie is trying to make you “feel” it, not just “read" it, not just but again, only to the extent that it is pulling me forward … in this “watch” it. way, many of my songs are written fairly quickly, … while many other Don’t settle for the first idea/rhyme/solution … explore! … there’s potential songs remain on the cutting room floor never to be thought more! of again (which can be viewed as confirmation that the initial idea or It’s difficult to “fit a full blown Western” inside 3 verses and a fragment was never strong enough) … unless they revive themselves chorus, but it’s been done magnificently! It can be challenging, but in my memory somehow (which can then be viewed as validation - “I that’s the key - challenge yourself! knew this was a great idea when I originally had it!).
SONGWRITERS NOTES 4 SPRING 2019 INVESTOR DALLAS NEWSLETTER SONGWRITERS ISSUE N°3 2019 SONG CONTEST WINNERS SPRING 2019 PRIZES PRIVIA PIANO FROM CASIO IS WINNERS CONTEST GRAND PRIZE Grand Prize Judge, Roy Elkin’s, comments Premier Demo By https://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com/p/2018-song-contest- judge-roy-elkins.html JO MUSIK GRAND PRIZE WINNER 1. Pull Me Up by John Latini, Ypsilanti, MI 2. All the Lovin' I Need by Louis Cates, A Premier Dallas Recording Service (List Value $705.00) Alexandria, VA 3. Broken Horses by Scott Thorn, Colorado, CA Grand Prize Winner, WINNERS and AMERICANA 1. The Man Who Drank Your Life Away by Kevin Hale, 1st and 2nd Runner Brentwood, TN 2019 DSA SONG CONTEST TO 2. Stuck by Mark Patterson, Plano, TX Up Receive: KICK OFF IN JUNE 3. A Hard Road Diggin That Coal by Kevin Hale, Brentwood, TN 1 Yr. Broadjam Primo MoB HM Movin' On by Michael Roth, Arlington, VA Membership ($199.95 Value) THE BELL HAS SOUNDED CHRISTIAN Includes Artist Website, 1 Yr. 1. I LOOKED UP TO (Featuring Derek) by Susan Odella, Hosting ENTER DALLAS SONG CONTEST Virginia, MN Annual Song Contest Back For 30th Year 2. Pull Me Up by John Latini, Ypsilanti, MI Additional Prizes 3. Bless Your Soul by Kevin Hale, Brentwood, TN 1st Runner Up Receives: Songwriters compete in 8 categories. Song demo at Jo Musik Category and overall winners share in COUNTRY almost $5,000 in prizes, including a song 1. Drop Dead Gorgeous Day by Bobby McCormick 2nd Runner Up Receives: 2. Fire by Susan Odella, Virginia, MN Song Critique by Barbara McMillen demo, a keyboard, a song critique, deluxe 3. Wanderin’ Eye by Mimi Balkey & Snag, Dallas, TX Recording time with Joe Musik memberships in on-line music INSTRUMENTAL 1st Place in Each Category Receives: communities, $$$ cash prizes and more. 1. Side Step by Bill Wren, Rockport, TX $100 2. Fais Deaux Deaux by Charles Carter, Dallas, TX A 1 year Broadjam MoB Membership ($49.95) http://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com 3. Come Sundown by Andre Kerek, Miami, FL 2nd Place in Each Category Receives: http://www.dallassongwriters.org $50 LOVE SONGS/EASYLISTENING 1. All the Lovin' I Need by Louie Cate, Alexandria, VA A 1 year Broadjam MoB Membership ($49.95) 2. After All This Time by Phil Ipsan, NY, NY Every Winner Receives: 3. Bluebirds and Butterflies by Charles Carter, Dallas, TX DSA Membership ($50.00 Value) NOVELTY/CHILDREN 1. Spiderwebs in my Heart by Clark Ford, Aims, IA 2. Real Moontan by Louie Cate, Alexandria, VA RUNNER UP GRAND PRIZE WINNERS 3. The App Song by Charles Carter, Dallas,TX
POP/ROCK/ALT/R&B 1. Pull Me Up by John Latini, Ypsilanti, MI 2. Your Brain On Love by Louie Cate, Alexandria, VA 3. All of Our Lives by Phil Ipsan, NY, NY HM I Will Never Set You Free by Charles Carter, Dallas, TX
SINGER/SONGWRITER 1. Gypsy Heart by Stefanie Johnson, Bethleham, PA 2. That’s The Way The Wind Blows by John Latini, Ypsilanti, MI 3. Reinventing Ourselves by Debra Gussin, LA, CA HM Broken Horses by Scott Thorn, Colorado, CA
WINNER OF THE Bluetooth Speaker Charles Carter, Dallas, TX for his Entry number 66, “Forever Now”. 3rd place grand prize winner For as long as I can remember 2nd place grand prize Scott Thorn with “Broken Horses.” winner, Louis Cates, has been entering and winning BEST SONGS OF THE MEETING is a 2017/18 award-winning awards in our song contest. He is from Alexandria, Va. where SONG OF THE YEAR WINNERS songwriter, alumni of the Acoustic Guitar he writes and demos his songs with other singers performing. 1. A TIME FOR LOVE Michael Brandenberger Project and a member of NSAI, His songs usually have a catchy twist to the lyric as evidenced 2. THAT’S JUST WHAT I’LL DO Craig Langford Songwriter’s Association of Washington by this years winning song, “All The Lovin’ I Need” 3. BRANDY BLUES Rio King and the West Coast Songwriters Association. He performs around his area of Colorado, CA.
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V-3 I RECOGNIZE THEM RIGHT AWAY, HAVEN’T SEEN SOME IN A WHILE the previous line to make it more understandable would help. And while I WINTER 2018 BUT EVERY OLD FRIEND I RECALL, IS SURE TO MAKE ME SMILE love the meter and sense of time in the Chorus, I feel that it could be a Thanks to Lyric Contest Director, Gene Schillaci MY DAYS ARE ALL TOO LONG, I CAN’T WAIT TO GO TO BED WHERE THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE, ARE STREAMING IN MY HEAD little clearer, for one thing I would reverse the placement of the lines SEMIFINALIST "Forever and a day" and "Till the end of time". And I think possibly Shey by Kenneth Adams, Rockwall, Tx CHORUS: DREAMING YES I’M DREAMING, SLEEPING MY LIFE AWAY rethinking a few words or a whole phrase in the chorus would make it Dreaming by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ THE MORNINGS COME TOO FAST, I WANT MY DREAMS TO LAST DREAMS TAKE ME BACK IN TIME, I NEVER KNOW THEIR MEANING clearer. Still, in my view this is a wonderful song with a strong sense of Homeless Sky by Michael Roth, Arlington, VA meter and a wistful look at the passage of a lifetime. If You Have any Questions, Ask You by Ken Adams, Rockwall, TX THE WAY I FEEL IT MUST REAL, BUT I’M ONLY DREAMING Five Day Weekend by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Come Rain Come Shine by Martin Robley, Ballajura The Bridge is Higher by Minnie Murray, Sante Fe, NM SPRING 2018 Western Australia You Are My Fantasy by Myra Litton, London, UK SEMIFINALIST When you’re young a day can last forever by Lyric Contest Director, Gene Schillaci When you’re old years fly by so fast SEMIFINALISTS country song or it could be done in a very spacey Pink Youth can’t wait … until tomorrow , , Ten Feet Tall by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Age looks forward to the past Floyd way with misty synths and string sections, they Man-Kind by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Chorus: Come what may lyrics sound like they would work either way. I also Say a Little Prayer by Lisa Vincent, Fresno, CA Come rain, come shine like the way the chorus is a summary of the whole Carry A Cross by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Forever and a day experience it draws the whole song together If Till the end of time , . 1. “ TEN FEET TALL “ Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Come what may anything, I First Place:: Shey by Kenneth Adams, Rockwall, V-1 HE SMOKED CIGARS AND ATE CANNED FISH IN THERE Come rain, come shine Tx IT SMELLED LIKE HELL AND HE DIDN’T CARE (*he said he didn’t care…) All too soon the days become more precious I liked this song because it did not have a lot of hazy, gauzy imagery in its HE’D SAY IT TOOK LUCK TO START HIS TRUCK BUT IT NEVER LET HIM first verse --- it gets directly to the point. The singer and Shey have a problem Life's a path you don't walk again DOWN Childhood days so sweet and fleeting they've been avoiding and its "time we faced the truth". Shey wants a structured (*that it took some luck to start the truck that never let him down) life, which apparently isn't to the singer's taste. She wants children, a house, a AND UNTIL THE DAY HE PASSED AWAY IT WAS STILL AROUND Lost like teardrops in the rain conventional life, and judging by the "sigh" it sounds like she's been seeing it, (* until the day he passed away, that truck was still around) Repeat Chorus: although she doesn't want to face it. When the song breaks for the chorus, I like V-2 the imagery, he's "hungry for the wind, a Texas tumbleweed" I can feel his joy HE WAS ALWAYS HELPING SOMEBODY (*someone *by)DOING as he sings about the blowin' in the wind lifestyle in the last two lines of chorus, I believed with age I'd gain some wisdom SOMETHING GOOD An insight missing in my youth I I can almost hear them without even knowing what the musical structure of the BUT HE WOULD NEVER ASK FOR HELP EVEN WHEN HE SHOULD song is. This is not a new song subject, it has been done before, but it is well (*but he’d never ask for any help even when he should) 'm older now …but not much wiser structured, well thought out so that all the lines contribute to the song, and well HE DIDN’T MAKE MUCH NOISE (*and he) NEVER TRIED TO SHINE I'm still searching for my truth written in my view. I would like to know what went wrong, Shey and the singer HE ONLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS HE BRAGGED ABOUT WERE MINE obviously had something that drew them together so that they are in the close (*the only things he bragged about was everything of mine) Repeat Chorus: relationship they find themselves in now, what happened to change things? CH: Bridge: Now I’ve looked at life from the womb to the tomb Change of heart? Or maybe there's no simple answer, but the fact that I WANT GRANDPOP WAS TEN FEET TALL LIKE AN OAK TREE REACHING FOR THE TO KNOW MORE tells me the lyricist is crafting something that draws me in. SUN From the cradle to the grave and beyond Maturity changes things, and the bridge might be better used to explain where EVERY BRANCH SO STRONG, HE GREW EVERY ONE And all I‘ve come to understand Is time passes … and life goes on things went wrong rather than rehashing positions that Shey and the singer have HE ONLY CAME UP TO MY SHOULDERS BUT I STILL LOOKED UP TO SEE already staked out in the early verses of the song. Still I believe this is a fine THE MAN THAT HE WAS, GRANDPOP WAS TEN FEET TALL TO ME Repeat Chorus: lyric, and I would love to hear the finished product, with music, as I felt I could REWORKED: (*Grandpop seemed ‘bout ten feet tall….stood tall as a tree. almost hear the chorus in my head in the "waiting for me, Ah hah, waiting for His head just reached my shoulders, but I looked up to see 2nd Place: Till We All Drove It-- I like this story song because it does a me, waiting for me, Ah hah" ending. The tallest man I ever knew…the kind I’d like to be. good job of telling the story with really short verse lines. I also liked the My Grandpop was a giant… He was ten feet tall to me.) little twist at the end where the wife(Mama) tells the kids she kept the V-3 Shey, isn't it time we talk about it truck her husband loved till each of the kids could all drive it. A nice job Shey, isn't it time we faced the truth HE WASN’T SO BIG (* His heighth was not impressive) AS FAR AS MEN (*might) GROW telling the story, and I like how it doesn't really all come out at once -- you I'll never be what you want MAYBE FIVE FOOT (*five or) SIX. I DON’T REALLY KNOW have to listen to the whole song to get the whole story. I see a few A man to be, what you want HE (*Grandpop) WAS ALL SUBSTANCE… NOT MUCH ON PRETEND places where it appears that the rhyme scheme does not work(able - We both know it Shey, we know A LITTLE OLD MAN A GIANT AMONGST MEN greater), but hey, it might work in the song itself, with music. I also think (* Even if a little small, he was a mighty man.) that the title of the song could be worked into the chorus so that it is Shey, you want the house, you want the kids V-4 ENLISTED IN THE ARMY LOST A LEG IN THE WAR repeated more often, it might make the title stick in the listeners mind Shey, two for sure maybe more (*enlisted in the army…a leg lost in the war) better. Nice work. Don't look at me that way WAS PROUD TO SERVE HIS COUNTRY, WISHED HE COULD HAVE DONE What's with the sigh? MORE TILL WE ALL DROVE IT by TY Nelson, Billings, MT I've seen your eyes light up just thinking about it (*he proudly served his country and wanted to do more) When my old man was just nineteen, Shey, I'm too shaky for the ride WITH HIS THICK GLASSES, THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULDN’T SEE He filled his truck with gasoline, (*He wore some real think glasses, but that’s not what made him see He packed his boots and a green canteen, Shey, the clock is ticking That freedom is a precious gift, but that gift isn’t free.) (Chorus) HE SAW THAT FREEDOM, WAS NEVER REALLY FREE And wrapped his dog tags in between. I get hungry for the wind CH: Like Texas tumbleweed Grandpop seemed ‘bout ten feet tall…stood tall as a tree. He drove his truck straight back to Georgia, I stagger and stumble unpredictably His head just reached my shoulders, but I looked up to see Where mama said “I’ll be waitin for ya,” The tallest man I ever knew…the kind I’d like to be. Hopped out his truck, said “Dang you’re gorgeous, Deep inside there's a flying machine My Grandpop was a giant…He was ten feet tall to me.) Waiting on the runway, waiting for me I missed this town and these front porches.” I love the thoughts in this lyric. I’ve offered a lot of rewrite support here, Ah hah, waiting for me, Ah hah because I feel this has so much potential and heart. I truly get your love and For the last 10 weeks he’d been away, (Bridge) admiration for your Grandpop. But even though the ideas and imagery are Shipped off to train the Marine Corps way, Have the house, have the car, have the kids, have the yard strong, the suggestions I offer are meant to allow the words to roll off the tongue To become a soldier it’s the price you pay, Call it desire, call it destiny more easily and to correct the meter issues. I recommend you always read your To keep our homeland safe each day. We're all hunters searching for a place in our dreams lyrics aloud multiple times to see if what you’ve written sounds unforced and natural and that the meter isn’t compromised. I encourage you to continue to But when he finished he drove back to Georgia, (Chorus) write a little every day. Then picked that piece up a week later and see if it still I get hungry for the wind Where mama said “I’ll be waitin for ya,” says what you wanted to say, but in a way that will show your work in its best Hopped out his truck, said “Dang you’re gorgeous, Like Texas tumbleweed light. I stagger and stumble unpredictably I missed this land and our five horses.”
Deep inside there's a flying machine 2. “ MAN—KIND“. Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ It wasn’t long before they called again, Waiting on the runway, waiting for me V-1 I GOT NO PROBLEM BEING A MAN To ship him to Afghanistan. Ah hah, waiting for me, Ah hah ALWAYS WAS AND I STILL AM But mama, she was havin twins, I CAN BE A MAN, AND BE KIND TOO Shey, before things get more complicated IF I’M A REAL MAN, THAT’S WHAT I DO He wouldn’t get to see them born right then. Shey, let's take a minute to reflect You want that life, make it, you have a right, take it “ CHORUS DELIVERED HICK-HOP STYLE “ Cause he drove his truck straight outta Georgia, SINCE WHEN IS IT COOL TO ACT LIKE A FOOL To board a plane on the coast of Florida, I'll only zig zag down the road, get out of line eventually GET WITH THE PLAN ACT LIKE A MAN (Chorus) Flew to a land that was far from gorgeous, REACH DEEP INSIDE SEE WHAT YOU FIND Missed his wife and their five horses. I get hungry for the wind OPEN YOUR MIND ALWAYS BE KIND
Like Texas tumbleweed REACH OUT YOUR HAND ALWAYS BE KIND And when they sent him overseas, I stagger and stumble unpredictably DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR ALL OF MANKIND My mama got down on her knees, V-2 Deep inside me there's a flying machine MANKIND COVERS A LOT’S OF GROUND She prayed to the Lord with all her might, Waiting on the runway, waiting for me EVERYBODY FROM ALL AROUND To bring my daddy back safe at night. Ah hah, waiting for me, Ah hah BEING KIND SHOULD BE EASY NEVER A CHORE (Conclusion) IF I ACTED WRONG BEFORE, I WON’T ANYMORE He never gave up, he never stopped fightin, You can't change me Shey V-3 Couldn’t hear her voice, but he never stopped writin, IT DON’T HURT TO SAY GOODMORNING, SMILE OR WAVE Cause he missed his home and he missed his wife, You can't save me Shey BEING KIND DOESN’T TAKE COURAGE OR ACTING BRAVE I might stay for a while but the day will come And remembered the best time in his life: YESTERDAY’S GONE, LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND When those engines call for me. FROM NOW ON, LET’S ALL JUST BE KIND When he drove his truck back down to Georgia, REPEAT CHORUS: Where mama said “I’ll be waitin for ya,” Second Place:: Dreaming by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ Hopped out his truck, said “Dang you’re gorgeous, I liked this song because it has a very nice description of I love this town and these front porches.” I would like to see other submissions with less emphasis on just rhyming dreaming, and I can relate to what the lyricist describes about their But then one day the ambush came, for the sake of rhyming. This seems forced. I want to see soul without dreams, I've had the same kind of dreams. Those familiar faces, He lost his life but not in vain. the instructional tone. Look around to see an example of someone the feeling of deja vu, that I've been in this strange place before, We won that war but he lost that fight, outside yourself whom you admire and try writing about them in free brought the experience of a dream to me in a way that is down to My daddy died a hero that night. verse without regard to rhyme. Then take those thoughts and tweak them earth enough that it could be a pop or might add a bridge or some more specific description in verse of people or places that the and rearrange them to build a lyric. I think you’ll find if you do this first, Mama drives his truck back in Georgia, writer has seen in his dreams, preferably something that everyone you’ll have a more expansive list of ideas to work from. In this piece, Cause she’s still here waitin for him, can relate to, such as a dream about grandma, or a long past love, you’ve written about potential, desirable qualities in a man, so use that To tell his daughter she’s so gorgeous, something like that. But I liked the flow, everything seems to move to build a great song from the heart out. And teach his son to raise the horses. coherently together. Nice lyric! She still sets his place at the table, SUMMER 2018 I can feel the presence of his angel, V-1 I LAY MY HEAD DOWN ON A PILLOW, AND TRY TO GO TO SLEEP SEMIFINALISTS Meet my dad, I was never able BUT MY MIND IS SPINNING ROUND, THOUGHTS ARE DIGGING DEEP But I know there was no one greater. SOON I GUESS I’M SLEEPING, BUT I’M NEVER REALLY SURE A Seat At The Table by Ross Miller, Newton. MA EVERYWHERE SEEMS SO REAL, LIKE I’VE BEEN THERE BEFORE Come Rain Come Shine by Martin Robley, Ballajura Western Australia Fireworks Don't Last Very Long by Bill Kapac, West Wildwood, NJ So I drive his truck back in Georgia, Where mama says “I’ll be here for ya,” V-2 I DON’T GO TO BED WITH A PLAN, I JUST CLOSE MY EYES Let Yourself Fly by Ross Miller, Newton. MA WHEREVER THE NIGHT TAKES ME, IS ALWAYS A SURPRISE Restored(The Jimmy Song) by Patrick Shade My sister, dang she grew up gorgeous, Rottin’ Reindeer by Melissa Standifird, Dallas Tx I plow this land and ride these horses. THE STREETS, HOUSES, TOWNS AND SO MANY PLACES Rockin’ Reindeer by Melissa Standifird, Dallas Tx REMINICENT SMILES, ON FAMILIAR FACES Till We All Drove It by TY Nelson, Billings, MT He’d be proud, I just know it. I smile wide cause I can barely hold it. CHORUS: DREAMING YES I’M DREAMING, SLEEPING MY LIFE AWAY Winner: Come Rain Come Shine -- I love the title of this song, and I Mama she ain’t never sold it, THE MORNINGS COME TOO FAST, I WANT MY DREAMS TO LAST can almost feel the rhythm of it as I read it, it is very naturally lyrical... My DREAMS TAKE ME BACK IN TIME, I NEVER KNOW THEIR MEANING Kept that truck till we all drove it. THE WAY I FEEL IT MUST REAL, BUT I’M ONLY DREAMING main issue with this one is some of the lines in it, such as "Age looks forward to the past". I'm not sure I am clear about what that means, not SONGWRITERS NOTES sure I really agree with it. I believe 7rewriting that line, or maybe, using SPRING 2019 SONGWRITERS NOTES 7 FIRST THURSDAY MEETING MEMBERSHIP DSA MEETINGS at Half Price Books on Northwest Highway FORM
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