A friend writes of songwriting, and I`m presuming he means quality songwriting of prescient import like Townes Van Zandt or Bob Dylan…and in quality writing I prefer to mean writers like Faulkner, Steinbeck, TS Eliot, Shakespeare and the like? Certain genres create different spheres of discipline though it is true – but if we consider Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan to be the hyperion of writing achievement then I don`t think just anyone can do it and I don`t think everyone has something to say. Certainly not of value.
Alot of people substitute melody, production or style for lyrical content and allow marketing in all its myriad guises to persuade them of qualities that are simply nonexistant. We live in a world in which people are increasingly ignorant of history, sacrifice, emotion, trauma and the hurt of others. We live in a world divided into those who think and feel with their hearts and minds and those who think they can feel.
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Some people have a god given talent with a pen and it clearly shows they have been around and experienced what life has to offer - without this experience there is nothing to offer the song writing pantheon but secondhand echoes and dull inarticulate reflections of life`s mirror.
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