In The Writer’s Room With Rivers Rutherford

I have received several emails this week asking about the best approach to recording song demos. There are many things that have changed over the last year since I first blogged about this. Here are a few questions to consider when demoing your songs. 1. Who will be listening? If you are playing your demo…

Multi- #1 songwriters Clay Mills and Marty Dodson give you a rare hot take on what you need to focus your time on as an aspiring songwriter. And it’s not what you think! SongTown’s 9th Annual Creative Xperience Workshop and Birthday Bash!! For more info and to purchase tickets CLICK HERE! Clay & Marty’s 10-day…

Clay & Marty discuss the Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” court victory and what songwriters should learn from it. Clay & Marty’s 10-day video series: This video series will help you level-up your songs and finish them faster. CLICK HERE to begin!  SongTown Press Books: Mastering Melody Writing : Check It Out The Songwriter’s Guide To Mastering Co-Writing…

Artist and hit songwriter John King joins us in the SongTown Studio to sing his hit song “We Went” sung by Randy Houser and to talk about how songwriters can better understand writing for artists. Clay & Marty’s 10-day video series: This video series will help you level-up your songs and finish them faster. CLICK HERE to…

Pay no attention to the cheesy AI driven title . Clay and Marty have a little fun and drop real pro tips on creating songwriting Success. Clay & Marty’s 10-day video series: This video series will help you level-up your songs and finish them faster. CLICK HERE to begin!  SongTown Press Books: Mastering Melody Writing : Check It…

I write with a number of young songwriters on a regular bases. And I can’t count the times that I have referenced an older song (80’s, 90’s or 2000’s) and discovered that they had never heard the song or artist. This isn’t shocking to me – You could say I once was that guy myself….