Interview with Dave Berg (part two), songwriter for Keith Urban, Rodney Atkins, Reba McEntire, Emerson Drive - January 4, 2010“I think it’s the only genre where there is such a hyper focus on the lyric – it’s got to all tie together and it’s got to all make sense. You can’t leave it up to the imagination as much in Nashville.”
For anyone harbouring dreams of making it as a songwriter, Nashville is still the beating heartland, whether you’re a country music devotee or not. A city that cultivates and showcases music from all genres, its musical culture is best defined by being “all about the song” than the more common ‘country town’ tag. In fact there are few more fitting ambassadors for this vibrant and diverse songwriting hub than this week’s interviewee Dave Berg, a rock musician who moved to the Tennessee capital with dreams of making a living out of songwriting over a decade ago and who now has number ones with Reba McEntire (US No.1), Keith Urban (US No.1) and Emerson Drive (US Country No.1) under his belt and a host of Songwriter of the Year awards to his name. In this interview Berg talks about the strange lifestyle of the staff writer, the politics of co-writes, how successful demos are recorded and how songs are written in a town where the lyric is king. Click here to read more Read On ... |
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