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Songwriting and surviving in an age of social media and industry collapse. Ben Walker’s vision of the future of songwriting and the future of music.

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“Who do you write songs for?”

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Good question. Not anyone you’ve heard of, that’s for sure. In fact, although I fully intend to get my songs covered by big names, to cowrite with rising stars and to make a fortune in royalties from random Japanese TV ads, for the moment I’m writing for me.
h3. Who am I?
Andrea Stolpe “wrote about”:http://andreastolpe.berkleemusicblogs.com/2008/08/04/write-what-you-know/ authenticity [...]

It’s hard to keep your balance once you’re on a roll

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“Nick”:http://www.nickfuckinggill.com is drawing graphs to keep track of how many words he’s written each day. That smacks of meta-productivity and procrastination to me, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Either way, his admission prompted me to calculate my song rate so far in the “50/90 Challenge”:http://5090.fawm.org.
50 songs in 90 days means 0.556 [...]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: the video is live!

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Today I made a video (or a “music clip”, as the Australians would have it) for “Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=556, the second song I have written for the “50/90 Challenge”:http://www.ihatemornings.com/blog/im-going-to-write-50-songs-in-90-days. Shot entirely on location in rural Oxfordshire, it features several different fields, some sheep and even some lavender. Check it out:
I was going to include a load [...]

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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So we’re a week into “50/90″:http://5090.fawm.org, and I’ve uploaded “one song”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=38 and a “set of lyrics”:http://5090.fawm.org/songs.php?id=556. That doesn’t sound like a great average, but I have written four more that I haven’t had a chance to demo yet, so I’m going to be busy when I get back next week.
The list looks like this at [...]

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