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DaveA Songwriter's Melodies (35) RE: Songwriter's Melodies 05 Nov 04


An interesting sidelight to this thread..

John Denver did an acoustic gig at Melbourne's Troubadour in the early eighties & got talking (over a glass or two of red) about how he writes the songs.

He asserted that for him it wasn't a formal composing process but rather a matter of "finding" (his word) the song that already existed within him. And he cited an example of going trail riding with friends & finding a song about the journey & then singing it to them that night. I keep trying to remember the actual song but it keeps segueing into Eric Bogle's "Katie & The Dream Time".

A different approach but if it works for you....
And I just wonder how many other songs died undiscovered with him.

Dave


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