This is writing songs from the heart. (not to be confused with writing commercial songs)  Are these two different animals? I asked Alexa to play me top songs off of Billboard hit chart. the first one was something You Proof…

     I went to a songwriting workshop on my vacation. Eighty bucks for a six hour session. A little pricey but I was hoping I would get my money's worth. The teacher had interesting stories about how he had written a…

        I remember when I first started writing songs. It was a fast process. Well, maybe not fast but faster than I write a song now. I would come up with an idea, get a title, make up a melody for…

     I am looking for a male country demo singer. I had a friend who did a great job on my demo's. He played guitar, great country singer style and recorded it for me. He was real reasonable on price. I…

     I wrote a song about the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahommes and how we all want to be winners like them. It is called Me.

ME 

Watching TV, wearing jersey fifteen 

cheering for Mahommes, and the…

     Yesterday, I went to the Bluegrass Festival at Prairie Lake. It is a small lake a couple miles from Holton, KS. I have been going to this event for years. On Saturday afternoon they had an open mic for bluegrass…

      Here is a lyric I wrote in the last week or two. It is saved in the notes of my phone. It might never be nothing, it might become a song, or never ever be looked at again. I hadn't…

     I was talking to my friend, Fletcher, who I write with. He told me that he heard that George Strait was looking for songs for a new album. That started me to think, If I was George Strait what would…

     Five years ago, I shared my story about sending my songs to songwriting publishing companies. I was full of hope. I made a list of major and minor publishing companies. I think I had seventeen publishing companies I contacted asking…

    Yesterday, I sent a text to Miss 98. No, that isn't a contestant in a beauty pageant. It is a radio station in Tupelo, Mississippi. My friend, Bill Miles and I wrote a song called Radio. It has a line…

    Solitude. That is a big word for a guy from Oskaloosa, KS. I thought I knew what it meant but I looked it up in the dictionary to make sure I was right before typing this. Solitude is the state…

   This song is one of my favorites that I wrote last year. I like it when a song is about somebody. It makes a song easier to write when you know that. If you have a line, it rhymes, but…