I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
It's amazing what some people read into songs.
I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent point of view that I had subconsciously been craving from the music scene.
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
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