Jim Tract is Gone
Songwriting is a wonderful thing.
Professional songwriting is a miserable thing.
The business of songwriting is a miserable business.
Jim Tract came to Nashville looking to change that
Jim didn’t just talk a good game.
Jim took a million dollars and started [...]
In 1993, just before I took a 13-year vacation from writing, I wrote a song called “I Would Be a Blackbird.”
Craig Bickhardt knows this song.
It’s a pretty straightforward love song. It does have two different choruses, the second an extended chorus.
You can find a rough version with my band [...]
Author’s Note
I’d prefer not to comment on my own writing. I believe that as soon as a writer leads in to one of his own pieces by calling attention to a specific section or topic he makes it much more difficult for the reader to have an honest experience.
I’m making an [...]
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This Nashville maverick walked away from the music biz at a time when his style of twangy alt-country could have ruled the world. Nearly two decades later he’s back with a new album of devastating import.
Nathan Bell didn’t mean to secede. He just didn’t see the point of dancing for Granny down [...]
The late comedian George Carlin once pointed out that if you can convince somebody to believe in an all-powerful God, what he called the big head in the sky, that they can be convinced to believe almost anything.
96% of all Americans believe in a big head in the sky.
To be fair, [...]
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