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New Artist Alert: American Songwriter debuts the first ever single & video from Chicago-based Americana / folk artist Michelle Billingsley

Singer-songwriter Michelle Billingsley is no stranger to flaws, nor does she attempt to hide them. She even went as far as to list them off in one of her songs. Songs that she explains are often a lot of work, leading her to twilight morning writing sessions, when she winds up erasing more than writing.  Some of those sessions lead to the completion of her latest song, “Portia”.

The charming alt-country song comes from Billingsley’s upcoming album Not the Marrying Kind due for release by early summer on Western Myth Records.  The song produced by Matt Brown, is a candid tune about knowing who you are and the ability to reveal the most brutal parts of yourself and is depicted by deconstructed arrangements and a repeated vocal octave jump, that quickly becomes the song’s motif. READ MORE…

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American Songwriter interviews outlaw/alt-country artist Devil Doll about her newest single “Purse Whiskey”

When Colleen Duffy woke up partially paralyzed back in July 2014, she knew things would never be the same. Wheelchair-bound at first, the Devil Doll singer returned to her hometown of Cleveland for medical attention, spending the next few months moving from tests and procedures, and receiving multiple diagnosis, before learning the main culprit of her debilitating pain, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome type III, a condition that weakens the body’s connective tissues. READ MORE…

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American Songwriter: David Burchfield Taps Into Feeling of Adventure on “O Big City”

While working a summer job in the New Mexican backwoods as a teenager, David Burchfield and his friends spent their evenings playing music around the campfire. This experience taught him two things that would change his life: he realized that his heart belonged to the Rocky Mountains, and he learned that a great song doesn’t need bells and whistles to be powerful. READ MORE…

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American Songwriter features new single from Andrew Weiss and Friends

Love and romance are easily the most common of songwriting themes, but the idea of redemption within that same context is often untapped territory.  Songwriter Andrew Weiss took a lens to the concept and dove deeper into an idea so relatable but rarely adopted for songwriting. Fifty songs later, he found what he was looking for and wrote “Everybody Loves a Comeback.”

“I love songwriting, and I immerse myself in the craft. I get really excited at the beginning of an album cycle about what shape the songs will take,” explained Weiss.  “That’s the beauty of songwriting, a song can appear from thin air, where before there was nothing.  When we were finishing up our first album The Honeymoon Suite, I started writing again for the next album, I wrote around fifty songs during the process, and “Everybody Loves a Comeback” was one of the first songs written.  For some reason, the topic of redemption was on my mind and I was trying to present a convincing argument for why people who mess up deserve a second chance. I put this idea through the lens of a romantic relationship. It’s not always easy to believe that argument, but redemption is always an interesting topic to explore.”

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