Songwriting Magazine Winter 2023 is our newest issue out now
For 2023’s ultimate version, we function among the artists whose songs have contributed to a different great yr of music
Gracing our cowl is the all the time sleek Emeli Sandé. The soulful power-pop star takes us again to the earliest days of her profession when she was juggling her alternatives to put in writing for the likes of Alesha Dixon, Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle together with her want to be singing her personal materials. Bringing issues proper updated, we additionally delve into new album How Had been We To Know. Impressed by love in all its totally different guises, the document is a reminder of the voice and expertise that made her debut, Our Model Of Occasions, one of many best-selling albums of the 00s.
Forward of her upcoming UK tour, Ashley McBryde takes us inside her newest album The Satan I Know. One of many sharpest writers in nation music, we acquire a captivating perception into her writing course of and the way her band helps form her sound. We additionally hear from Eric Burton of Black Pumas about how he levelled up his songwriting sport for the duo’s second album Chronicles Of A Diamond. Harnessing the power of his band’s reside reveals into the writing and recording course of the lightning-nabbing outcomes are there for all to listen to.
We even have one other trio of songwriters spilling the beans on one in every of their greatest hits. And large hits don’t get a lot greater (or hittier) than Plain White T’s billion-streaming Hey There, Delilah. We hear from its creator, Tom Higgenson, earlier than Seth Swirksy takes us again to 1987 when he co-wrote Taylor Dayne’s empowering dance-pop anthem Inform It To My Coronary heart. Finishing the set, country-pop star Hunter Hayes reveals the origins of the chart-topping Needed – spoiler alert, it entails making an attempt to impress a woman.
This quarter’s Method part goes again to the basics… Rachel Walker Mason has 5 ideas that will help you overcome author’s black. So we will get began on our subsequent unforgettable tune, Jamie Lawson shares a few of his songwriting secrets and techniques. Then we’ve got Benjamin Yellowitz offering perception for anybody who needs to supply their very own compositions, Astrid Williamson on how one can flip journals into songs, and James Linderman helms our helpdesk to deal with the query of what ought to come first, music or lyrics?
As all the time, we’re extra stuffed than a festive turducken. Katherine Priddy unveils her Songwriting Survival Package, King Creosote breaks down a tune that varieties a part of his new album’s “demise trilogy,” The View’s Kyle Falconer takes us by his solo album No Love Songs For Laura, and husband-and-wife duo Honey And The Bear impart the teachings they’ve discovered on their musical journey collectively.
We additionally rely down our favorite songs of the yr, earlier than talking with the artist/songwriter behind our successful alternative. Take pleasure in!