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Hosted by Ben Opipari · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 204 episodes
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In-depth interviews with songwriters about their songwriting process. Nothing else. No talk of band drama, band names, or tour stories. Treating songwriters as writers, plain and simple. By Ben Opipari, English Lit Ph.D.
Ben Opipari hosts Songwriters on Process, a music show with 204 episodes published.
Took a wonderfully deep dive into the songwriting process with David Shaw of The Revivalists . We discuss middle of the night epiphanies, how mishearing a lyric can make for a better lyric, and how reading great literatu
Lenny Kaye 's tenure as Patti Smith's guitarist and collaborator extends from 1971 to the present, but the 79 year old is only now releasing his debut solo album. The punk icon and pioneer is also the author of three boo
"I don't like closing a book on words, not even my laptop," says Alex Cameron . This is no metaphor. Cameron means this literally because he always wants to be able to see his words. He keeps a giant piece of butcher pap
"You don't have to be a tortured artist to write a song, but it's important to write about what you're feeling and not run away from it," Azniv Korkejian (aka Bedouine) says about her songwriting process. As proof, she t
It's not often (ever?) that I get to talk Hegel, Jung, and Goethe with songwriters. But Dragos Chiriac of Men I Trust and I go deep into philosophy in this episode. I am a huge fan of the band and enjoyed our discussion
"The failure is not in writing a bad song. The failure is in writing no song." Keenan O'Meara has always honored the value of work. Maybe it's because he's also a carpenter by trade, but discipline is his asset even thou
Jason Newsted blends words and acrylics. Literally. The former Metallica bassist and leader of Jason Newsted and the Chophouse Band is also an accomplished painter, and to get started he'll often write song lyrics (not h
I'd like to call myself an OG Widowspeak fan, as I told Molly Hamilton. I saw them when they opened for 2:54 back in 2011 or 2012 on their first tour, and I became an instant fan. Hamilton and I go deep into the songwrit
"Hard work is important, and it feels good. My family put a lot of stake into working hard, so it's been ingrained in me," Nick Allbrook of Pond told me. We did this interview at 6:30am his time, so that's all you need t
Go Dawgs! Loved having the Athens-bred Futurebirds on the pod. They're no longer college students at the University of Georgia, of course, but as longtime friends and bandmates they've evolved from students to family men
"If I could sum up my process, it would be this: finish everything," says Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie . "I finish every song I start even if I know in the first verse that it’s a complete pile of shit. I finish it
Greg Mendez has a shelved album concept that he says you can have if you're a songwriter. The plan was to center each song around the rhythm of a different car's turn signal, and the title of the song would simply be the
The formula is simple. Step one, read great Irish literature. Step two, write killer songs. It's worked pretty well for Euan Manning of Cardinals so far. The Irish songwriter for the Cork-based band rattles off writers w
"A great way to write is to overwrite. Write more verses than could be contained in a song. Then take the best of what's there," says Rostam Batmanglij. I cannot agree more: good writers know that the first pass is never
"When I'm not self-conscious, I tend to write better stuff. I need the dud sessions before I make progress," says Emma Jansson of Girl Scout. Good writing in the initial stages is indeed all about getting out of your own
"We should see how many disco records were made in the winter," Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene said. And with that, we ventured into the intersection of songwriting and meteorology: how weather patterns and temperatur
Jena Malone had me at the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. When the actor/songwriter started our discussion talking about Millay and the profound effect poetry has on her songwriting process, I swooned. There’s a theme here
All you need to know about Maya Hawke's dedication to wordcraft is summed up in this memory: "The day I fell in love with my husband was the day we got into a fight about free verse poetry versus formal poetry." (Hawke's
As a bilingual artist, Lolo Zouaï uses both English and French on her new album Reverie. Sometimes it's because the meaning of a word in one language is more precise for the song, while other times the sound of the word
Donovan Woods is the master of the pull quote when it comes to the songwriting process. His words are wise counsel for any songwriter. To wit: "A good song asks questions rather than provides wisdom," and "When I have wr
Maya Hawke
1 appearance on this show
Paul Muldoon
Ireland Professor of Poetry · Trinity College
1 appearance on this show
Kyle Thomas
Chief Commercial Officer · Exhorder; Trouble; Heavy As Texas
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Lindsey Jordan
Snail Mail · Snail Mail
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Nate Ruess
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Jessica Thompson
health communication scientist / survivor · Generational Health Physical Therapy and Wellness LLC
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Alex Wolff
Reuben
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Euan Manning
Cardinals
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Emma Jansson
Girl Scout
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Kevin Drew
Broken Social Scene
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Carl Newman
The New Pornographers
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Buck Meek
Big Thief
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