I Write the Songs

This will be the last ‘I Write the Songs’ column in the current run. I’m taking a break for the summer period but it will be back in the Autumn with a whole new bunch of […]

Let’s not mess around; I think ‘Dark End of the Street’ is the finest country/soul song ever written. The version recorded by The Flying Burrito Brothers remains, for me, the definitive version, though the James Carr […]

“All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer’s job to find it and get it on paper.” A great quote on songwriting from a writer who has done more than her fair share of […]

In the month when we celebrate International Women’s Day, it would seem appropriate to shine a light on a songwriter who has often been overshadowed by her husband’s writing. When it comes to songwriting, Guy Clark […]

A wayward genius who hid a tough life behind an ability to raise a laugh. Roger Miller often gets dismissed as a novelty songwriter but such a simple view derides the intelligence of one of the […]