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by Paul Zollo
ISBN: 0306812657
Binding/Media: Paperback - 752 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Sold with pride. New, unread copy. Publisher's overstock, with publisher's mark.
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Very insightful and useful
Rating  (5)
Date: 2009-03-30
I am thoroughly enjoying reading this book. First off, it's huge,a good two inches thick and dense (a photo at the beginning of each interview and nothing more). The interviews are solid and in every one of them that I have read so far I have found something that has made me a better songwriter. Zollo knows what he is talking about and gives credit where credit is due. He also asks interesting questions. This book is great for anyone interested in songwriters and songwriting.
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Very good book about the creative process
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-08-06
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Paul Zollo interviews about 30 or so songwriters and gets them talking about their songwriting processes and how they go about it. Very interesting and shows you that everyone has a different way of doing it. Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, Dylan, Lindsey Buckingham and many others are in there.
If you are a songwriter or interested in becoming a songwriter, you should buy this book.
If you aren't a songwriter and have no interest in becoming one, this is still an interesting look at the creative process and how different people approach it.
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wow
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-06-01
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Compilation of over a decade of interviews with songwriters talking about the way they write songs. Really helpful.
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very good book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-01-14
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
there is something incredible about Songwriting since it represents a special Gift that if done right lastes Era's,Decades&Perhaps centurys. it takes the right balance of structure, progression&the right feeland melody that captures words that will take you back to a time period&then will still move you in a future sense as well.this Book breaks down the many thought process's involved in crafting a song.
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Very Interesting Compilation
Rating (4)
Date: 2005-08-25
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The title of this book might be slightly misleading. Don't expect this to be the great tome of deciphering the songwriting process, but it does contain a plethora of hugely influential artists talking about their craft. It covers the territory between Townes Van Zandt all the way to Madonna. The way it works is that Paul Zollo was an editor and journalist of sorts with different music magazines or something, and it is largely a compilation of interviews he has had, mainly around the early 1990s or late 1980s.
One of the highlights is the section with Paul Simon, which goes on for what must be near 30 pages. It is rather important to be familiar (more than just vaguely so) with most of the artists interviewed to really appreciate their comments, since most of them are regarding their own catalogues. And as mentioned above, the answers provided are mainly just cursory overviews with their own writing styles, nothing is concrete, just little stories about how they wrote this or that song. Bob Dylan is in his usual cryptic form as well, providing a funny and somewhat informative interview.
If you are a lover of music this book is for you. It does have some nice little suggestions too on the art of songwriting but most follow the mystical path of "grabbing what was out there" and decline to take credit for their own work. Altogether a great and interesting read though. And besides, like you would expect the greats to truly give away their secrets anyway, if there even are any.
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by John Caldwell
ISBN: 0198161298
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 730 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. Gently read copy in like new condition. No reading/ shelf wear.
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