Elton John, John Prine, The Long Winters, and other songwriting news.
By Don • Sep 11th, 2006 • Category: Songwriting News
Harp Magazine interviews John Roderick of the Long Winters about songwriting. (via LargeHeartedBoy)
“Writing—it’s a tremendous struggle,” says Roderick, explaining he has a standard—no “cheesy shit” in the lyrics. “[I’ll believe] every single thing I write for six months is completely cheesy. I sit and just poke my eyes out trying to find [the right] words.” (Link)
Loretta Lynn, on the country music business now compared to yesteryear:
“It’s hard for me to watch what goes on today, knowing how it started. I think what bothers me mostly is the stuff they get by with. You can hear ’em put a record out, and it’s absolutely not what it should be. But it gets played, and as long as they get played it’s gonna keep happening. A lot of ’em don’t have the songs. When I started, you had to have the song. It didn’t matter how good you sang it; it was the song.”
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