Songwriting: Not For Control Freaks!

March 2, 2015

Brent Baxter is a hit songwriter with cuts by Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Lady Antebellum, Joe Nichols, Gord Bamford, Ruthie Collins, Ray Stevens, and more. He’s written a top 5 hit in the US and a #1 in Canada… so far.

Songwriting is a terrible career for control freaks. Sorry. It just is. There is just so much that’s out of your control, and you need to make peace with that.

You control a few things. You control how hard you work… and that’s about it.

You don’t control your natural talents. For example, I can work really hard on my singing and melody-writing, but I’m never gonna be great. So that means I have to give up some control. It’s not me singing the demos or up on stage at the Bluebird. It’s not me writing the melody. Sure, I have input and cowriter approval rights, but it’s not total…

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