What do you really want to know about the music artists you love most? American Songwriter has the latest news on popular music’s most fascinating figures, of course. But let’s go deeper. Let’s pick through the inner-workings of a smash hit. Or learn about songs you may think you know well, but most certainly do not know the famous artists who wrote them.
Is a rising star you’ve only kinda-sorta heard about playing the Grammys? We’ll have interesting articles with backstory galore on what makes them tick as songwriters and musicians. Perhaps the singer you saw live the other night name-checked a legendary influence you’re not familiar with. American Songwriter will familiarize you with the source of your favorite artist’s inspiration.
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American singer and songwriter Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003), 9th September 1971. (Photo by Jack Kay/Daily Express/Getty Images)
Sign on the main gate 'Friar Park' into George Harrison's Home at Henley. A man is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after the former Beatle and his wife were attacked at their home. (Photo by Tim Ockenden – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
Country Singer Patsy Cline performs on stage at the Riverside Ball Room in Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1960. (Photo by Johnny Franklin/andmorebears/Getty Images)
(Original Caption) : 1987- Picture shows singer, Phil Collins, holding a microphone on stage during a concert. He is wearing a white button-down with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He is shown from the waist up leaning back slightly. (Photo by LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Def Leppard (v.l. Steve Clark, Rick Allen, Joe Elliot, Phil Collen, Rick Savage) on 01.12.1983 in Dortmund. (Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images)
View, from behind, of American musician Bob Dylan as he plays acoustic guitar during a performance at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 1963. Audience members sit on the grass of the tennis court at the ivy-covered buildings of the Newport Casino (later the National, and then International, Tennis Hall of Fame). (Photo by Rowland Scherman/Getty Images)
American musician Stevie Nicks of the group Fleetwood Mac perform onstage at the Los Angeles Forum, Inglewood, California, December 6, 1979. In the foreground is American musician Lindsey Buckingham. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)
