Originally Posted By: floyd jane
There are no "cubes". Nobody sits 9 to 5 churning out cookie cutter songs. And it's not "who you know" either (the other sour grapes line of Nashville disrespect). Everybody writes when they want, where they want. Sometimes that is in the offices that some publishers provide - which are most often rooms in big, old, "Main Street style houses" - with sofas and coffee tables (and often a piano). Often, it's simply getting together at each other's house for a couple of hours. They earned their way there through hard work and an understanding of how the craft of songwriting works. They are very good at it.


That was a metaphor for people who churn out songs like a worker in a sheet metal factory stamps out parts on a press.

At least give me the jeans and the boots.....

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.