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The 5 Best Sites and Online Tools to Help You Write Song Lyrics

The songwriting process can be difficult, and when you’re struggling to come up with the words, you can get demotivated to carry on. Whether you’re struggling to expand your song idea or you need a fresh one, there’s always a way to deal with writer’s block. Fortunately, you don’t have to be stuck with writer’s […]

John Kelly: Write about what you love – saying thanks to Peter Guralnick

The original Sun Studios recording facility run by Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee I owe a very great debt to the American writer Peter Guralnick. Every time we speak I make a real point of saying so, and of saying thanks. Over the years his writing has sent me of on all manner of musical […]

Ed Sheeran reveals he lost out on James Bond theme song to Billie Eilish after he’d already started writing it

Ed Sheeran opened up about losing out on a James Bond theme song to another famous musician: Billie Eilish. The “Shape of You” singer revealed the disappointment he felt after beginning to write the theme song for the 2021 Bond film “No Time to Die,” which ultimately went to Eilish. Sheeran revealed that when original […]

Bob Dylan Lives (and Greil Marcus is Still Writing About Him)

Some people really don’t like Bob Dylan. They look for reasons and find them in his voice, his mercurial politics and what some interpret as his contempt for his audience. Others think he can do no wrong. Their eyes refuse to see his human flaws and suffer no criticism of their god. Greil Marcus, on […]

He’s a felon who was homeless. He just won two prestigious national writing awards

Writer Frank Kensaku Saragosa, who was formerly homeless, poses near a sidewalk encampment in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Omaha native Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an […]

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village.

Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5. Saragosa, 56, was anxious that some of the homeless people in the sidewalk encampments […]