With the passing of Levon Helm I am reminded that the gift of music is not one to be taken lightly. Music weaves its way into our lives and our very souls the way no other art form does. It can silence us or make us squeal with joy, alarm us or soothe our [...]
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 [...]
“I started writing songs about losers in a society that was made solely for the winners.”
Peter Case
“Troubadour Blues” is a film, a documentary, generated by the heart and mind of Tom Weber. Weber took on the daunting task of attempting to portray and preserve a valuable, yet [...]
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 [...]
If the plane had missed The Pentagon on 9/11 they might have hit my husband Roger’s office building, just on the other side of the highway. At impact, Roger felt his building shudder and he thought a truck had hit it. He walked out of his office to investigate and noticed a [...]
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