Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 8 – August 1991 – Interview: Paul Overstreet

Songwriters Musepaper – Voume 6 Issue 8 – August 1991 – Interview: Paul Overstreet

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Table of Contents

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FEATURES
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE –
THORNS IN THE MUSE’S SIDE 6
Doug Thiele definitely has his reasons why sometimes its just easier to relate to a synthesizer in the studio.

INTERVIEW – PAUL OVERSTREET 7
Setting the pace for Nashville’s writers without cheatin’, drinkin’ or raisin’ hell, Paul Overstreet keeps hitting the top of the Nashville charts with a purposefully uplifting family outlook.

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING –
WHY HARMONY? WHY NOT HARMONY? 11
David Cat Cohen discusses how to avoid that one-song stand by writing groove tunes that live on.

MUSICAL NOTES –
WHEN LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT 14
Harriet Schock shares her thoughts on some of the little things that often do make a huge difference.

SPOTLIGHT –
THE ART OF THE SINGER: PREPARING FOR THE STAGE 18
Lis Lewis takes us through the ritual that works for her when its time to get ready to wow ’em.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE –
LOOSE TALK, ETC 20
Hank Linderman reveals his secret way of combating techno-lust when money’s short but the desire to acquire won’t expire.

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 13
Cassette Roulette’m (publisher song critiques) and Pitch-A-ThonTm (producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts).

AUGUST 1991 • SONGWRITERS MUSEPAPER

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 6 Issue 9 – September 1991 – Interview: Oleta Adams
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 2 – February 1991 – Interview: Mary Chapin-Carpenter
• 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