Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 2 – February 1991 – Interview: Mary Chapin-Carpenter

Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 2 – Interview: Mary Chapin-Carpenter

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Table of Contents

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INTERVIEW – MARY-CHAPIN CARPENTER 7

This Grammy nominee is one of the fastest rising stars in the country sky. John Braheny explores her writing muse.

VIRGIN WATERS FOR THE SONGWRITER: ARTIST MANAGERS 10

Tory Gullett gives you some good advice on an often overlooked approach to pitching tunes.

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES – SONG SHARKS 12 Veteran writer Robert B. Sour gives you another warning.

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING -HOME ON THE INTERVALLIC RANGE 14

David Cat Cohen shows you how to analyze a song’s range and apply it to artists you’re pitching to.

OFF THE RECORD: AN ORAL HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC -STING 15

We excerpt the chapter on Sting from Capitol/EMI chairman Joe Smith’s great collection of interviews.

FLOW: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE -THE FLOW OF MUSIC 17

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s new book is a primer for experiencing life to its fullest. We excerpt a chapter that we hope will turn you on to the rest of it.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE – THE ALESIS SR-16 DRUM MACHINE 20

Hank Linderman puts the new Alesis machine to the test and loves it.

LASS NEWS

MEMBER NEWS – NOTEWORTHY – MUSICAL CHAIRS 4

News about classes, biz events, where your favorite publishers and a&r reps are this month, good stuff about our members and PickUps.

WEEKLY SHOWCASE SCHEDULE 25

Cassette RouletteTM (publisher song critiques) and Pitch-A-ThonTm (producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts).

FEBRUARY 1991 • SONGWRITERS MUSEPAPER 3

From the Acting Archivist…

Much like the Songmine columns posted earlier, the archives contain a large collection of Songwriter Musepaper publications. With this posting, I am beginning a project to scan the cover and table of contents of each issue and then OCR (convert the scanned picture to text) the table of contents in order to make it searchable. I don’t yet have the staff necessary to create complete scanned issues of the Museupaper, but if there is interest in a particular article or interview, I can scan that and make it available here.

Douglas E. Welch, douglas@welchwrite.com

Previously in Songwriters Musepaper:

• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 10 – October 1994 – Interview: Paula Cole
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 10 – October 1995 – Songwriters Expo 18
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 4 – April 1991 – Interview: Dean Pitchford
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 1 – January 1995 – Interview: Stephanie Davis
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 12 Issue 1 – January 1997 – Interview: Skip Ewing
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 3 Issue 11 – October-November 1988 – Interview: Jules Shear
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 5 – May 1989 – Interview: Lyle Lovett
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 12 December 1996 – Interview: Allan Rich
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 1 – January 1991 – Interview: Fee Waybill
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 1 – January 1989 – Interview: Steve Lukather: Major Guitar Talks Major Songs
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 9 – September 1990 – Interview: Desmond Child
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 4 – April 1992- Interview: Thom Bell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 7 – July 1992 – Interview: Robert Byrne
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 3 – March 1991 – Interview: Alan Silvestri
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 10 – October 1990 – Songwriters Expo 14 – Interview: Glen Ballard
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 10 – October 1991 – Interview: Dewayne Blackwell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 9 –  September 1992 – Songwriters Expo 16 – Interview: Jennifer Warnes
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 10 – October 1993 – Cover: Charles John Quarto and Pete Wasner
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 8 – August 1993 – Cover: Interview: Janis Ian
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 10 – October 1992 – Cover: Interview: John Trudell