One way to stay true to your songwriting is to put in on your schedule! Would love for you to come join this special March 5-Day Songwriting Challenge, it's a small commitment of time with a powerful ability to allow you to create a song from start to finish in just a few days. Register Here on my website for the Songwriting Challenge, yay!

Let’s talk about the Essentialism of Our Songwriting and then get to actually writing songs!!

Music is healing, we know this on a cellular level

How is your songwriting going? Are you doing it?

It’s easy not to do our songwriting, but is it? It’s not easy or easeful in our life when we skip our creative processes. So much reward in our adult life to checking off our to-do list but our songwriting is so essential. We come to the dinner table each night more ALIVE and full of feeling, when we’ve said yes to our creativity, touched based with our emotions and feelings, this is HUGE.

At the fork in the road, choosing whether I make a phone call I need OR do I sit at my songwriting. Perhaps it’s not so black or white…

So much more bits of inspiration on my Songwriting Newsletter, just click this link here to sign up for that weekly cheer in your inbox!

Take good care, yours in songwriting,
Anne

Songwriting doesn’t have to be hard. What a good reminder! One of my mentors was saying that editing is perfectionism! That really hit me as being so true.

On today's episode, you'll hear me dive into songwriting with WAY less editing and less overthinking. It can involve more play and experimentation and having fun.

I know you want to be writing more and I think you'll find these tips will help you do that!

Wanting to join the February 19th Online Song Circle? Come meet some new songwriters (we are a very sweet and supportive community, a safe place!) and share one of YOUR new songs! I'd love to hear it. Register Here, it's free.

You can always head to my website, www.annesibley.com to find out about more songwriting opportunities and support!

Listening to songwriter Pharis Romero is like sitting in the most beautiful kitchen with warm sun streaming in the windows and a cup of your favorite tea. What a treat to get a deep dive into her songwriting process. She has created a beautiful life with her husband, together known as “Pharis & Jason Romero” and you will want to add their albums to your playlists!

Their latest record Tell ‘Em You Were Gold was released on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in June 2022. I hope you’ll read all about them, their lives are fascinating and their music and the banjos they build are exquisite.

The two recordings we play on the podcast today are songs that Pharis wrote: Souvenir, the title track from their most recent album and A Wanderer I’ll Stay.

“I love the part of my brain that wants to turn things into songs! And it gets better, the more I do it…” says Pharis.

Visit Pharis’ Website: https://www.pharisandjason.com/home

Follow Pharis & Jason Romero on IG: pharisandjason

Check Out their Incredible Banjos: https://www.romerobanjos.com/

Enjoy reading these beautiful lyrics to Pharis Romero’s song “A Wanderer I’ll Stay” which we play in the second half of the podcast:

Oh why wait for summer when there's time to waste right here

There's an aching deep inside says

There's no time, honey there's no time

Oh I was born to wander, and a wanderer I'll stay

Though it grieves my poor old mother

There's no time, honey there's no time

There's no time, there's no time

Why do girls go steady, when their hearts are not inclinеd

And I believe thеy just aren't ready

For the road, honey for the road

Boys are fixed on numbers, how many and what kind

In this game we're all pieces

On the board, honey on the board

On the board, on the board

Some will take a hammer, and nail their bodies down

In a loving home forever

In town, oh honey, in town

One morning I might wake up and take the day in hand

I'll use the nails and hammer

Build a home, honey build a home

So many episodes all to inspire and support your songwriting plus check out Anne's songwriting groups and coaching at www.annesibley.com