I used to drink with a depressed friend and early influence, the late protest singer Phil Ochs. He seemed to have everything with his notoriety and famous topical songs and ballads like “Changes..

Motivation ensures that things get done and that first efforts are followed up by additions, revisions, and expansions. Songwriters can get caught in the trap of falling in love with the first draft, ..

When I read the monthly reports on my online music sales, I see that the downloads have yielded amounts in fractions of a penny, about one and a half cents each song, for a total of a dollar forty-sev..