Run To You

[jwebbinspired]

Very well put Casey.

[matthoggard]

Jun 11, 2009, 3:43am, hurowitz wrote:One thing I noticed songwriters of all genres do (including myself) - is reference songs that were successful despite defying conventional advice for newbies-- type of story, lyric style, structure, etc... It's easy to pick one of those to justify our not wanting to change what we are writing.The way I see it, it comes down to probability. When you follow the "rules", your odds are better than if you don't. Maybe it's 1 in 10,000 if you do it all by the book and 1 in 1,000,000 if not. That doesn't mean the 1 in 1,000,000 is impossible.Somewhere out there are folks who smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day and drank a pint of Jack Daniels for breakfast each morning AND lived to be 104. But I wouldn't advise that for someone who says they want to live to be 100. CaseyTrue. You can make it to 41 pretty easily though.

[momof4]

okay, so FWIW, i love this Lady A song. love it. it's not "traditional", but i love it anyways because it's different. maybe i'm wrong, but it seems like a ton of people can write a great country song by following the formulas. but it seems like the ones getting cut (for new acts, anyways) are the ones that are just a little bit different. they're unique. maybe that's b/c the new acts write their own material, but i like it. just my opinion, of course.