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“Over the past twenty years, the whole economics of being a songwriter has completely changed. If you were to take what you normally make today and divide it by ninety-one; that is what happened to the songwriters’ royalty rate as the consumer marketplace shifted from physical goods like albums to the streaming model. That is drastic.” – Amanda Colleen Williams

“I don’t hop freights or ride the rails. I don’t pick cotton. But it’s carrying on the tradition of a musical style which I really like.” – Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh

“I have written a lot of jingles, but one of the things I like best is that I wrote the theme to ‘This Old House’ that ran for fifteen years.”

They say there’ll never be another Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson, but Jim Stanard draws from the same well of weathered experience

Award winning writer and Grammy nominated musician Dege Legg – aka Brother Dege – recounts five years behind the wheel of a cab while documenting the underworld of Lafayette and its Cajun and Creole hinterlands.

“Sometimes I’m asked if I’ll ever write a book and I always answer that I already have. It’s in my songs.”

Adia is a classically trained violinist turned an award-winning rock and blues improviser, who took to her balcony to perform for an unseen audience of neighbors

“I always drank to get a little run up before my performances to get in the zone with it and honestly, I get into that zone way better without drinking and that clarity is awesome.” – Ash Grunwald

“What’s gotta happen is people gotta change the law that you must treat a man right. We gotta find a way. Everybody knows what’s wrong, but nobody knows how to fix it.”

This globe-spanning chapter in his life took him out of his existing culture, climate, and comfort zone and in turn crystallized his approach to songwriting