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Member Since: 6/3/2008
Band Website: coming soon....
Band Members: Songwriter: Dee
Songwriter: Angel aka "Tex"
We are BMI members
Influences: First and foremost our heavenly Father and our best friend Jesus. Musically, way too many to mention them all. Bob Wills & Texas Playboys, Gene Autry, Patsy Cline, Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Tanya Tucker, Reba, Martina McBride, Barbara Mandrell, Brenda Lee, Connie Smith, Dottie West, Donna Fargo, Hank Williams Sr,. Bill Anderson, Charlie Daniels, Mel Tillis, Alan Jackson, Big Roy, Johnny Rodriguez, Clay Walker, Randy Travis, Michael Martin Murphey, Dottie Rambo, Brenda Lee, Stella Pardon, George Strait, Tracey Lawrence, Alabama, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Sara Evans, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Terri Clark, Shakira, Crosby - Stills - Nash & Young, Emilio, Aaron Tippin, Charley Pride, Freddy Fender, Willie Nelson, Marty Stuart, Travis Tritt, Trace Adkins, The Judds, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Eagles, Jim Croce, REO Speedwagon, Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, .........oh we could go on forever.

Most Influential Songwriters:
Bob Wills, Billy Joe Shaver, Bill Anderson, Gene Autry, Cindy Walker, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Joe South, Radney Foster, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Willie Nelson, Cowboy Jack, Roger Miller, Wayland Holyfield, Dickey Lee, Dallas Frazier, The legendary Dottie Rambo, Otis Blackwell, Cindy Walker, Bob McDill, "Whitey" Shafer, Ray Whitley, Hank Cochran, Wayne Kemp, Roy Orbison, Don Gibson, Hugh Prestwood, Nat Stuckey, Aimee Mayo, Don Schlitz & Michael Martin Murphey.

Some of our favorite songwriter's quotes:

We relate to...

"The words and music come together. It just sort of comes to you. The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen..." Cindy Walker

"You don't know (when it's time to write a song). You just feel the song. It comes through you. " Floyd Tillman

"Be capable of writing good country songs, be different and remember that you must be yourself. Originality is one of the greatest assets in the business." Ernest Tubb

"I just sit down for a few minutes, do a little thinking about things, and God writes them for me." Hank Williams, Sr.

"SONG WRITING IS KIND OF LIKE FISHING, THE MORE YOU FISH AND THE LONGER YOU FISH THE MORE FISH YOU CATCH." Aimee Mayo

"I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say 'This is the way you do it,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way....So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes...But that's always after the fact--as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me." Roy Orbison

"I have a theory that somebody beside me must write my songs because half of the time I don't have the slightest idea where they come from. I even wake up out of a dead sleep and write a song completely. I wrote 'A Funny Way of Laughing' that way. I wrote words and everything. I ran over the melody a couple of times before I went back to sleep to make sure I wouldn't forget it." Hank Cochran

"As an art, songwriting is the best sort of art. You take a pencil, and you write something, and they mail you money for the rest of your life," Phil Everly

"I try to write music with a spiritual uplift instead of a moral downbeat." Stuart Hamblen

Pineapple Jack Clement's Ten Tips For Songwriters:
Remember that experts are often wrong.
Experts tend to be narrow and overly opinionated.
Experts don't buy records.
There's nothing wrong with waltzes if they're played right.
A good song gets better with age.
Reveal some of yourself with most of your songs.
Don't get stuck on one song too long. Work on other songs as you go.
Learn to grow from setbacks, delays, and getting your feelings hurt.
Write the worst song you can think of.
Write the best song you can think of.
Jack Clement aka as Cowboy Jack & Jack Henderson

"If I have to fool around with a song for a day or two, I might as well forget it because it won't be any good anyway." Ted Daffan

"I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight." Johnny Cash

"Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it." Kris Kristofferson

"I like myself better when I'm writing regularly...I was influenced a lot by those around me--there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields." Willie Nelson

"Don't bore us, get to the chorus." - anonymous Nashville quote

"...sometimes I have a melody but then other times I don't hear anything I only hear a story." Ruthie

"Sometimes there's a really great song hidin' out in some really cruddy lyrics. A talented songwriter will learn to smoke it out and clean it up." Dee

"Listen with your gut. I mean really listen." Tex

"For some would-be singer-songwriters, life often gets in the way of their dreams." Nalia Francis - Sound Stage

"A good country song -- some will make you laugh, some will make you cry and some will make you think." Kenny Rogers

"Talking about songwriting is like doing card tricks on the radio" - Emmylou Harris

"I'm sure you're familiar with the phrase, "You sound like a broken record." Well, if your song sounds like a broken record, it'll probably never end up ON a record." Brent Baxter

"Don't try to follow the fashion. Listen to a voice that's deeper than you think it is. Always dig deeper." Carly Simon

"Well, the songwriting process is something very difficult to explain because it's very spiritual. It's, uh...You really have it in the hands of God, and it's as if its been written already - that's the real truth. As if its been written in its entirety before were born and you're just really the source through which the songs come. Really. Because there is...they just fall right into your lap in it's entirety. You don't have to do much thinking about it. And I feel guilty having to put my name, sometimes, on the songs that I - I do write them - I compose them, I write them, I do the scoring, I do the lyrics, I do the melodies but still, it's a...it's a work of God." Michael Jackson

"It's a thing called empathy, and it's the greatest friend a songwriter can have." Bill Anderson

"Some folks worry about the cost of life without knowing the value of it. Way I figure it, happiness is like a butterfly. You can chase it, but if you just settle down it'll light on you." Smiley Burnette

"I think there's something inside you that just says 'You gotta write a song. Whether you want to or not.' I think most of the time, I start writing with a feel." Bobby Braddock

"Simple, basic truth...from the heart to the heart...that's what it's all about. We seem to better understand each other in song. A song by its very construction leaves no room for shadings or sham. And the country song seems to be the most direct for the country writer knows no other way. His songs reflect the hopes and dreams of everyone as well as everyone's fears and failures. And his songs are a common meeting ground. His songs are not unlike the mirror held before the dirty-faced little boy which causes him to wash that face. And maybe, just maybe, if the whole world would listen to our country songs there'd be a whole lot of face-washing going on." Tex Ritter


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