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The BMI Holiday Countdown: Darlene Love, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
Darlene Love, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector In the early 1960s, Brooklyn natives Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich were barely in their early twenties when they started writing songs for American teenagers. The two started hanging around the Brill Building independently of one…
From News, posted 12.06.11
The BMI Holiday Countdown: Buck Owens, “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy”
Buck Owens, “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy” Written by Buck Owens and Don Rich Buck Owens was a young truck driver the first time he passed through Bakersfield—a flat, hardscrabble stretch of central California whose musical identity he’d soon shape. Inspired by the heartfelt honky-tonk of Wynn Stewart and the double Texas fiddles of Bob…
From News, posted 12.01.11
The Black Keys: Sittin’ on Top of the World
Back last February when the Black Keys nabbed two Grammy Awards, it was one of those rare moments when the parallel musical universe — you know, the one that ought to be — allows a quick glimpse of itself in the blinding white klieg lights and television cameras before it slips back into the long shadows and small rooms where it is forever born and dying. It…
From MusicWorld, posted 7.13.11
BMI @ SXSW: 9 Questions with RAYLAND BAXTER
Winsome Nashville singer/songwriter Rayland Baxter is slated to perform at BMI’s Acoustic Brunch. Baxter answered BMI’s rapid-fire round of questions about songwriting, heroes, and SXSW anticipation. What’s the name of the first song you ever wrote? “Stanley Merona, The Dreamer” If you could only name one favorite songwriter, who would that be? Bob Dylan Use just one word to describe your own songwriting…
From Blog, posted 2.28.11
BMI @ SXSW: 9 Questions with JUMBO
Jumbo is a jangly alt-rock outfit out of Monterrey, Mexico, slated to perform at BMI’s SXSW St. Patrick’s Day showcase on Thursday, March 17 at 9:45 p.m. at The Ghost Room. Guitarist Flip Tamez and lead vocalist Clemente Castillo answered BMI’s rapid-fire round of questions about songwriting, heroes, and SXSW anticipation. What’s the name of the first song you ever wrote? FLIP: One called "Ella No…
From Blog, posted 2.28.11
G. Love Visits Past, Emerges Fixin’ To Die
Garret Dutton has been better known as G. Love for his nearly two decades as a professional musician. But it’s only with his most recent and soon to be released album that Dutton lays bare the exact folk and blues variety that sparked, and intermittently permeated his 20 years as G. Love. “Fixin’ To Die,” due February 22, is a rootsy collection of covers and originals, with…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.15.11
Prince Royce’s Bachata Breakthrough
Earlier this year, the 21-year-old singer/songwriter known as Prince Royce went on his first tour to Europe, where he encountered more than culture shock: actual fandom. “It was crazy, girls were crying, some even fainted. I had been told by people that my music was playing over there, but I didn’t think it was that big,” he says of his visit to Spain, where mostly young Latin…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.06.11
With ‘Hands All Over,’ Maroon 5 Hits Stride
No matter how prepared a band might feel, commercial success, when it comes, can be an unsettling event. Fortunately for Maroon 5, when their 2002 album Songs About Jane went multi-platinum, the group was on firm footing. “I think we handled it well,” says Adam Levine, frontman for the L.A.-based quintet. “It took us a long time to get there, so when success came,…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.20.10
Broken Bells Ring True
Six years ago, James Mercer and Brian Burton (now equal parts of Broken Bells) met on the ancient island Zealand, where they were both booked to play the Roskilde Festival —Mercer as frontman for indie rock band The Shins and Burton as fearless DJ/producer Danger Mouse. The two Americans — perfect strangers in a land of blighted Viking ships and throbbing nightclubs — got acquainted backstage, caught…
From MusicWorld, posted 8.30.10
BMI Jewels Make Up Majority of Rolling Stone’s Top 500
In its June issue, Rolling Stone magazine offered the latest version of its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time," an update of its countdown originally released in 2004. Nuggets crafted by BMI songwriters overwhelmingly dominate the list: Standards from the BMI catalogue make up more than 60% of the classic roll call. Nine out of the top 10 picks are BMI gems: The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,”…
From News, posted 7.12.10
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