This week I am joined by the incredible Bobby Hartry. I met Bobby when he was playing guitar with our friend Brenton Brown. In addition to being a ridiculously talented guitarist, Bobby is an Emmy winning songwriter and an accomplished music producer. Together with his wife Jen, they run Catbeach Music.


In this conversation Bobby and I talk about:


• Cruising Alaska
• learning to dogsled from Cuba Gooding Jr
• Designing your creative space
• kids playing led Zeppelin
• Hunting down guitar gear
• Seeing U2 live
• How music triggers memories
• Gotta give it to the Edge
• Preschool instruments rock
• Recording like your painting
• The role of a producer
• Flaws are important
• Collaboration is critical
• The temptation to  silo yourself
• Inspiration will show up if you do
• Hitting a wall and pushing through it
• The allusive problem song
• Not being too precious in the process
• Don’t chase old muses
• Writing music on assignment
• Using Parameters to spawn creativity
• How to handle notes on your art
• Holding opportunities loosely
• Writing music for television
• Landing Mailbox money
• Cataloguing your creations
• When the hard drive crashes
• Making it sound good in the room, not just in the computer
• Capturing the player in the production
• Why do we document experiences instead of having them
• When artists decide to work with someone else
• Serving the artist and the song
• Saying no to the right things
• Realizing when your working too much
• Vacation and anxiety attacks
• Surprise Emmy nominations

… and how you never know where opportunities will come from.


Check out to Bobby’s work at BobbyHartry.com

also check out their label Catbeachmusic.com


 

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