Just because you didn’t sit out those stuffy piano lessons or master the recorder as a kid no longer means you can’t write killer hooks. Assistive melody writing technology has leaped forwards in ...

John Prine wrote the lyrics to “Hello In There” while delivering the mail on his postman route. Later, he found the chords and melody to go along with the words. John Legend prefers to write the ...

Early in my songwriting career, I was driving to a co-writing session with Hall of Fame songwriter Rory Bourke. Traffic was extremely slow that day. I rushed into the writing room and frantically said ...