Interviews

Songwriting Scene Q&A: Aimee Mann

March 16, 2011
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When I first started Songwriting Scene back in June 2009, I immediately realized that I had a great platform to speak to songwriters I admired. That is, if I could get any of them to speak with me. But hey, why not aim high? As you know, my early efforts to speak to Paul Simon [...]

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Songwriting Scene Q&A: Fastball’s Miles Zuniga

February 27, 2011
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Now that I’m over a year-and-a-half into writing this blog, surprising messages and unusual reach-outs have started to become more common (in the beginning, the most likely response I’d get to a blog post was something like, “Can you babysit this weekend? Love, Sis”). But the other day, I received the following short e-mail to [...]

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Songwriting Scene Q&A: Paul Zollo, author of “Songwriters on Songwriting”

October 14, 2010
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I mentioned last month in a previous post that Paul Zollo‘s Songwriters on Songwriting is a must-have. It offers page after page of riveting, detailed, laser-focused interviews with legendary songwriters from Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson to Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Neil Young. Coincidentally, I got an e-mail the other day letting me know [...]

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Songwriting Scene Q&A: Jonatha Brooke

August 8, 2010
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Sometimes I’ll e-mail the publicist of an artist that I really admire and request a phone interview — without the hope of much success. Most often (as with my dwindling efforts to get Paul Simon on the line…ha ha), my e-mail efforts go unnoticed. But in the case of Jonatha Brooke, I recently got an [...]

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