Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Originally Posted By: Al-David
Hi Floyd ...

It's hard to go wrong when writing with Bill. Besides being an excellent songwriter, he's a heck of a nice guy.

Terrific song and so well produced and delivered. In addition to your great vocals and arrangements, I particularly enjoyed the mandolin on the left playing perfectly with the guitar on the right. Great backing tracks.

As always, pure excellence. Best to you & yours ...

Alan


Thanks, Alan. Bill is a top-quality lyric guy. For someone who doesn't do any music (I don't know if he plays an instrument or not - and we wrote a couple dozen together) his sense of prosody is highly developed. That "sense" of what works in a "radio song" (i.e. something pitch-able in Nashville) is a skill that only a small percentage of people truly understand...



Floyd ...

I've met Bill a couple of times in Nashville back in the early 2000s (2008 and 2009, I believe). we were there at the behest of the late Bobbie Gallup - she was a dear friend. And I think you are correct that the only things he plays are the stereo and the radio! I once wrote a backing track for a lyric he wrote for a young, emerging local star near where he lives - I'm not sure if he would want his hometown named.

And yes, excellent prosody writing is a rare commodity. I do reasonably good with it when creating lyrics for Smooth Jazz and older RnB. After that, it tanks pretty quickly!

You two are a great pairing for country music creation!

A quick question: Have you ever written with Jeffrey Steele?

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