Posts tagged with "big machine"
GREG FRIIA
SONG FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Songwriter: GREG FRIIA
Song Video: BONNIE TYLER
Song: “You Try”
Songwriters: Greg Friia, Mary Danna, Anthony Little, Andrew Lane
GREG FRIIA Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
How did the idea of “You Try” come to you?
I wrote this song with Mary Danna, Anthony Little and Los Angeles producer Andrew Lane. At the time, Andrew was producing...
SUNNY SWEENEY
SUNNY SWEENEY
Concrete
[Big Machine]
Smart storytelling songs with compelling melodies and rootsy but not anachronistic settings; dashes of wit amid adult settings involving cheaters and leavers and stayers. Singing that’s pitch-true without having been Auto-Tuned into submission. Ah, so it must be Americana, yes? No, Sunny Sweeney’s Concrete is a genuine contemporary country contender, released on a major label and already sporting a Top 10 country...
VARIOUS ARTISTS
VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings, Volume I
[Scatter/Big Machine]
TRIBUTE
There’s a very good reason most tribute albums are lousy: The majority of them are collections of disparate tracks, each recorded by a completely different team of artists, musicians and producers. That almost always results in a lack of cohesion, even given the unifying factor provided by the songs. The Music Inside is a convincing...
TAYLOR SWIFT
TAYLOR SWIFT
Speak Now
[Big Machine]
“There is nothing I do better than revenge,” warns Taylor Swift on Speak Now, in one of many observations that demonstrate she’s still fond of wielding her smartly crafted pop-country songs as weapons against those who have wronged her. But her third and darkest album yet scales up the drama, her oversize emotions matched by full-bodied arrangements. During her teen years Swift took aim at classmates who...