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May 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Carving It Out: Backstory and Economy in Songwriting

A couple of years ago I had a chat with Anthonie Tonnon  –it was in the lead up to his then-new album, his first solo record and we got to talking about economy in songwriting, the ideas around narrative, songs that seem to be stuffed with back-story, but done in a subtle, stirring way. There are certain […]
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