Songwriter Trysts

A question lots of people ask is how does a struggling starving creative person go from having no money and living on $15 for food a week in Nashville to being one of the most wanted songwriters in town? Well thats exactly what we find out in this podcast with Hit songwriter Chris Wallin who has topped the charts with classics-in-the-making for the industry’s biggest stars: “Love Me If You Can” by Toby Keith, “Don’t Blink” by Kenny Chesney, ”People Loving People” by Garth Brooks, “I’m Tryin’” for Trace Adkins, “Something To Be Proud Of” and “Speed” by Montgomery Gentry and many more.

Dont Blink - Kenny Chesney

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Celine Dion, Ray Charles, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Jason Gould and Ricky Martin just to name a few credits of songwriter Alan Roy Scott has composed songs for over the past 40 years working out of LA and traveling the world.  Multi-cultural music events to build bridges through the healing power of music. As a songwriter, songwriting coach, and founder of Music Bridges, his extensive career has led him to 114 countries and counting.

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Brother Jason Petric from the Canadian band Petric has a chat with Rae Leigh from Australia talking about songwriting, their journey and what they are up to given the change in ability to work as a musician during covid. 

With millions of online streams, multiple hit songs and just as many awards and nominations to their name, Petric, the brother duo, made up of Jason and Tom Petric, have taken their music from small stages of Transcona bars, to the most prestigious festivals and venues across Canada. The duo is set to release their sophomore album "18 Ends" in the fall of 2017 under Dallas Smith's record label, Steelhead Music.

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Nashville, as we know, is a music city, but when two music-loving housemates move in together and start to encourage each other and collaborate you end up with 'Monster' a killer track and a fun relationship...

These two collaborators are an inspiration to what can happen when we start to work together and play to each other's strengths. 

Carrie Welling's melodies are rich in folksy, Americana roots, paired with empowering, honest lyrics are stunningly showcased in Welling’s forthcoming, full-length album High Heels and Heavy Things. Created in a home studio in Nashville with purely organic instruments, this raw and vulnerable record was produced by Eric Holljes (Delta Rae) and features songs co-written by the talented likes of Holljes, Mary Bragg, Alex Wong, and Matt Zavala.

The walls of Alex Wong’s intimate recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee are coated in chalkboard paint. Though they are wiped clean at the moment, they will soon be filled with a jumble of words and ideas that gradually forms the map of a new creative journey. A multi-talented artist, songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and sometimes chef, Wong has an innate inquisitiveness and introspection that lend him a unique ability to thread a story through seemingly disparate creative expressions and experiences. He patiently peels back the layers of each and charts his way to a common core.

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Genius songwriter, producer, record label consultant, and guitarist Michael Flanders sits down live in the Songwriter Trysts studio to share just a tinny fraction of his music publishing life in Nashville. Want to know the difference between the entertainment industry and the music business? Micheal will lay it out for you along with sharing some of his incredible stories of the day-to-day workings of music city life, publishing, Sync licensing, touring, production, and most importantly relationship building in Nashville.

Michael Flanders hosts his own podcast too, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTX1xn-G-6qIcdsTLKTUUHA

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From Sydney starting out at a young age with the Australian girls choir where she had a best friend who fell into a coma in her sleep from type 1 diabetes and passed away which she found out via a Facebook feed. Music saved her and helped her process through her emotions during this time and continued to be her therapy. Following her passion for music is now having an incredible impact in the country music scene and giving us a big dose of Cassidy-Rae music therapy and place to connect with one another. 

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Dan Biddle the current chairman of the Country Music Association Australian, Producer of the Australian Golden Guitar awards and artist manger of The McClymonts and McAlister Kemp almost quit on the music industry when he through it had died after his employer at the time signed and released Big Brother star Sarah Maries's "The Butt Dance" song back in the 2000's...

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Imagine being on TikTok and throwing out a riff, then two people from that post picking it up and it turning into your next single as an artist! Well thats what happened with Shaylen with her latest original track Do Si Do, some super cool southern country vibes with the LA pop dance beats. 

Shaylen leaves a mark on pop by casually dropping the sort of lines you get tattooed somewhere scandalous or reserve for a drunk DM. Unafraid, unapologetic, and unfiltered, she’ll put a boring ex on blast in one breath and open up about her deepest insecurities in the next. Yet, she sets gleefully pins those confessions to a defiant soundtrack of R&B, pop, and alternative across her debut EP Highs & Lows and the buzzing 2019 single “Sprite.” Posting up over 10 million streams within a year and receiving praise from Billboard, Just Jared, Hollywood Life, Popdust, and Idolator who pegged her as “on the brink of a major breakthrough,” the Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter turns heads in 2020 with a series of singles and her forthcoming full-length debut album for Republic Records.

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In this podcast we get to know Hayley, where she came from what she studied and her secrets to her success and how she manages to keep going and coming up with such amazing music. She talks about her new single Karma and her album which is out on the 22nd of October and you can pre-order on her website HERE

Hayley Jensen is an artist whose vocal abilities place her in elite company within the industry. Bursting onto the scene in 2004 as a Top 4 finalist on Australian Idol, Hayley has performed for Coalition Forces in the Middle East, won a MusicOz Award, and was mentored by Kylie Minogue on The Voice Australia, who described her as 'the whole package'. Her 'blind audition' has received close to 2M views on YouTube. 
 ‘Past Tense and Present Peace’ was Jensen's first iTunes #1 album & her hard work was rewarded with a Aus. Indie Country Music Award and Top 5 finalist spot at the 2018 Country Music Channel (CM) Awards. 
 Hayley signed with Social Family Records to release her album 'Turning Up The Dial', produced in Nashville USA with Grammy & Emmy Award winning producer, Jamie Tate. It debuted as the 3rd highest selling Australian Country Album (ARIA), #2 iTunes Country album. 
 Over the past two years Hayley has toured nationally & internationally, performing at Buckle & Boots Festival in the UK (‘Summertime Soundtrack’ dubbed the festival soundtrack), Calgary Stampede & Dauphins CountryFest, in Canada in 2019.

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Eddie Rawk made his Mum cry after years of training to be a professional AFL player that he was going to quit and focus full time on his music career. 33 year old singer songwriter and new father is in Melbourne and was worried about having to give up music when becoming a dad and Rae and Eddie discuss the truth, that his wife helped him realise, that if all his hero's in music like Keith Urban and Bruce Springsteen can have children and still have a successful music career than so can he. 

An inspirational chat and amazing music coming from this must watch country rock Australian Artist. 

Note: Bruce Springsteen Youtube link about songwriting as discussed in the podcast >>>HERE<<<

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