American Songwriter takes you behind the music of your favorite artists with our collection of interviews. Find in-depth conversations with some of today’s biggest hitmakers or legendary songwriters who have long ago left their marks on the world. Learn more about the albums and songs that enhance your life from the artists who created them. What inspired the songs? Why do the artists make the choices they do? Find out here.
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(l to r) Tucker Wetmore, Dasha, Tigirlily Gold's Kendra Olson and Krista Slaubaugh, Kaitlin Butts, Kashus Culpepper, Chayce Beckham, Avery Anna
Celebrity devotees of the Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi and friends, at his academy in India, high up in the Himalayas, where they are studying transcendental meditation, March 1968. From left to right, Patti Boyd, John Lennon (1940 – 1980), Mike Love of The Beach Boys, Mahareshi Mahesh Yogi, George Harrison (1943 – 2001), Mia Farrow, John Farrow, Donovan, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Cynthia Lennon.(Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
