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	<title>Cowboy Confessional &#187; Songwriting</title>
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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Jack is Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with other musicians can be a downright joy.
Lately I have had Steve Laciak (who I have nicknamed “One Take Laciak”) doing lead guitar on some demos.  Steve is of that caste of musicians that take his craft seriously and life … not so much.  The result is he comes into the studio, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hall of Lame</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/12/16/abba-and-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-lame/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People watchful for signs of the Apocalypse saw one this morning as news broke that both ABBA and The Stooges will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
To steal yet another line from Mojo Nixon, “What could be less rock and roll than ABBA. The Archies?”
For people fortunate enough to sleep through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice Change</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/08/29/the-new-freight-and-salvage-in-berkeley/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could get used to this real quick.
There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California.  Smelted in the 1960&#8217;s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60&#8217;s the differences were minor) was The Freight.  Its proper name is The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Go</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/08/23/songwriters-working-with-a-band/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having written songs and performed solo for way too long, it is odd being in a band.  (We&#8217;ll call it a band.  More like four guys who wanted to jam and needed a good reason to drink week nights).  Individually we are all quite good.  Collectively we are sloppy with occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse Play</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/07/06/remix-of-stollen-horses/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Drilling down through my list of songs to record or fix, I encountered Stolen Horses, the only outright Western I&#8217;ve ever written.  Two years have lapsed between the original recording and this fix, which was actually a blessing.  In those two years the recording studio software has been radically updated as has been my engineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punched Purgatory</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/06/20/updated-version-purgatory-of-your-love/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like a broken leg to afford some extra studio time.
I was thumbing through my recording roster to see what I might work on next and decided to punch-up Purgatory of Your Love, not out of affection for the tune but because it supposedly had the least amount of necessary overhaul.  But like a writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right Ways?</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/04/11/updated-just-the-right-way-demo/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a song goes in very different directions once you have time and a few extra instruments to experiment with.

Just the Right Way
This song has been through two significant shifts, and this one was almost accidental.  I was unhappy with the lighter sound of the original version. Not bad per se, but it lacked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revision Ruminations</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/02/14/the-value-of-producers-and-ar-buyers/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Songwriting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate A&#38;R buyers, mainly because they are right.
Buyers shop for songs to sell recording artists.  These folks are (typically) industry veterans with the psychological scars to prove it.  They are intimate with a wide range of musical genre and can instantly connect a demo song to any number of artists who might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pimping HJ</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/01/15/houston-jones-high-octane-americana/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to brag about a local band, not because they are good great musicians, but because they write honest songs.
The outfit is called Houston Jones, and their music is as they bill it &#8220;high-octane Americana.&#8221;  Fitting description as they rather seamlessly weave together sounds from blues, folk, country, gospel and their own cosmic connections.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/12/09/limited-pain/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2008/12/09/limited-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The toughest part of writing songs is understanding one’s limitation. Mine are vocals.
No kidding Guy?  Aside from our ears bleeding, we never noticed.
When peddling a song to publishers the recording and mix don’t have to be perfect.  Publishers are looking for good raw material done in styles that will make them imagine some [...]]]></description>
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