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The Songwriter Diaries The Songwriter Diaries
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The Songwriter Diaries is a podcast created by Caroline Stump and Megan Ellsworth that explores the songwriting process. Both Songwriting and Music Business majors at the University of Colorado Denver, these young women hope to shed a light on the creative and analytical aspects of the industry. By interviewing fellow songwriters, mentors, and industry professionals, Stump and Ellsworth showcase a wide array of valuable perspectives on pursuing a career in music. Through these discussions as well as many tangential laughs, mental health checks, strange noises, and questionable audio takes, two Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesongwriterdiaries/support
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Clementine Was Right
Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of poets Mike Young and Gion Davis. Chronicling years of uprooting—from Northern California to New England, Alaska to New Mexico—the music gallops and sways through hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo. The band is based in Denver and features an orchard of collaborators from the Sierra Nevadas to the Ozarks, complicating and queering the lineage of "country music" with yokel fuzz.
Mike Young is the songwriter for Clementine Was Right and author of Sprezzatura (Publishing Genius 2014, poems), We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough (Publishing Genius 2010, poems), and Look! Look! Feathers (Word Riot Press 2010, stories). He lives in Denver, CO.
Gion Davis is a trans poet from Española, New Mexico where he grew up on a sheep ranch. His debut collection Too Much (2022) received the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize selected by Chen Chen. He graduated with their MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Gion can be found on Instagram @starkstateofmind & on Twitter @gheeontoast.
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Catch up with Megan and Caroline!
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Season 10 Finale: Creative Burnout
Megan and Caroline take about creative burnout in the Season 10 finale of The Songwriter Diaries! Listen to their advice on recharging the old creative batteries and hear what's to come next season.
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Claire Nichols
Claire Nichols serves a sucker punch of pop prowess on a platter of biting lyricism and lush instrumentals. A flight of Nichols’ songs leaves a bold but bittersweet aftertaste; while “Aperol Spritz” is liquid confidence carbonated with spunk and seduction, “Kicking and Screaming” is a fireball shot, coaxing you toward a rage room of indie-pop angst. Her impending single, “Fleamarket Furniture” embodies Nichols’ storytelling capabilities, is cathartic, self-deprecating, and refreshingly candid.
Claire Nichols has paved herself an intersection of pop, somewhere between FLETCHER, Lorde, and Maisie Peters, but determinedly, entirely her own.
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Daniel Kim Ethridge
A proud product of both Long Beach, CA and Austin, TX, Daniel Kim Ethridge began his music career with dreams of being a touring guitar player at the age of 11. When asked about how he found an affinity for country music, Ethridge says “if you’re going to be a guitar player from Austin, you’re either going to want to be Stevie Ray Vaughan or Willie Nelson. I wanted to be both.”
After years of playing other writers’ songs, Ethridge quickly added “songwriting” to his long list of talents upon arrival at Belmont University in Nashville. The Music City resident draws inspiration from the lyric writing of Paul McCartney to the sounds of Willie Nelson, while continuing to find insight from the works of Chris Stapleton, The SteelDrivers, Jason Isbell, John Paul White and Sean McConnell, to name a few.
After winning the 2018 Texas Songwriter U program, judged by Jack Ingram and Liz Rose, Ethridge spent years post-graduation on the road playing sideman for other artists while still writing for his own projects and others’. When 2020 came around, Ethridge reconnected with old friends and mentors from his college days to co-found touring act Troubadour Blue, a powerhouse trio bound to impress as both vocalists and instrumentalists. With Troubadour Blue, Ethridge has played historic venues like The Ryman Auditorium and The Bluebird Cafe along with multiple CMA Fest appearances and billing at 2023’s Pilgrimage Fest. The trio has also toured frequently with Grammy-award-winning group, The SteelDrivers. Daniel Kim Ethridge maintains that he was “too short to play first base for the Dodgers and didn’t like school enough to be a doctor,” so music was his obvious direction in life - in everything from songwriting to his avid search for vintage Martin and Gibson guitars.
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Annie Kemble
Annie Kemble is a multi talented musician who creates irresistible music with a unique jazz sound out of Des Moines, Iowa. Her captivating vocals paired with equally strong instrumentals can be heard on her latest single “Your Love is Profound” off of her upcoming full length album “Pink Limousine” coming out this October. Annie uses her training in voice, piano, drums, and arranging along with her exceptional songwriting to tell stories and evoke feelings as universal as they are specific.
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