Midweek Update 44: The Songwriting Edition

Flaming Lips, Jimmy Webb, Natalie Merchant, Labi Siffre... and Back To Black with Amy Winehouse.

I’ve penned many a Wordsmith musical post about artists, their songs, the performances and the recordings. But I haven’t really talked about songwriters and the art of songwriting before, without which there are no songs, performances or recordings, and not much point being an artist either, come to that. So let’s do it, in single – meaning 7” single - …