Ask any songwriter working these days about Anaïs Mitchell’s songwriting and their eyes go starry. Many go straight to the through-line emotional insight of her album, Young Man in America. Most will gush about the decade-or-more she spent writing a Tony-winning Broadway musical (Hadestown) steeped in some convergence of folk balladry, New Orleans second line, … <a href="https://folkalley.com/why-we-write-with-kim-ruehl-eps-15-anais-mitchell/">Continued</a>

Ask any songwriter working these days about Anaïs Mitchell’s songwriting and their eyes go starry. Many go straight to the through-line emotional insight of her album, Young Man in America. Most will gush about the decade-or-more she spent writing a Tony-winning Broadway musical (Hadestown) steeped in some convergence of folk balladry, New Orleans second line, … Continued

Ask any songwriter working these days about Anaïs Mitchell’s songwriting and their eyes go starry. Many go straight to the through-line emotional insight of her album, Young Man in America. Most will gush about the decade-or-more she spent writing a Tony-winning Broadway musical (Hadestown) steeped in some convergence of folk balladry, New Orleans second line, … <a href="https://folkalley.com/why-we-write-with-kim-ruehl-eps-15-anais-mitchell/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Continued</a>

Why We Write with Kim Ruehl, Eps. 15: Anaïs Mitchell

'Why We Write' features conversations between folk music reporter Kim Ruehl and a hand-picked array of great songwriters. So much goes into a song—the songwriter’s intimate life, their upbringing, their worldview, what they see going on in the world. What moves them to put pen to paper? How do they do it? When, where, and why? Ruehl explores all of this with some of the finest songwriters working these days—old favorites, up-and-comers, and everything in between.

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