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Thanksgiving For Songwriters!

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Thanksgiving For Songwriters!

This week, I’d love for each of us to take a look at some things that we have to be thankful for as songwriters.  Let’s get to the good stuff!

Be thankful that we (live in a country where we’re free to chase this crazy dream!

Be thankful that it’s a great time to learn the art, craft and business of songwriting.  Between podcasts, YouTube, blogs and other resources, there is a wealth of information out there for us.

Be thankful that we can cowrite remotely.  Skype, Google Hangouts and other platforms mean we don’t have to live in New York, LA, or Nashville to write with other songwriters.

Be thankful for online communities where you can meet cowriters, support others, and be supported by other songwriters.  (By the way, Songwriting Pro and The C.L.I.M.B. both have Facebook groups you can join…)

On a personal level…

I’m thankful for each of my current cowriters who believe in my talent and abilities.  And I love that they let me hang out with them and enjoy their talents.

I’m thankful for the Songwriting Pro community- for each of you who comment on blog posts or share them.  I’m also thankful for the cool songwriters I’ve met through workshops and coaching.  Ya’ll are awesome!

I’m thankful for the listeners of The CLIMB.  I love reading the iTunes reviews and emails Johnny and I get from all of you awesome Climbers out there!

I’m thankful for Ruthie Collins (Curb), Joe Nichols (Red Bow), Benton Blount (America’s Got Talent) and James Dupre’ (The Voice) and others who have recorded one or more of my songs for their current albums.  Ya’ll make my words sound SO good!

I’m thankful for each and every person who has cranked up, downloaded, purchased, streamed or sang along with one of my songs this year!  THANK YOU!

What about you?  What are YOU thankful for?  I’d love to read your comments!

Here’s a “THANK YOU” for you!

Because you’re awesome.  Because I appreciate your support, engagement, and helping Songwriting Pro grow and help more and more songwriters this year, I want to give you a little something-something.

Now through the end of Saturday, you can get 15% off of any product in the Songwriting Pro Online Store.  The discount code you’ll use at checkout is:

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CLICK HERE to gobble up some deals! (See what I did there?)

Thanks and God bless,

Brent

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A Songwriter’s Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving! I thought it would be cool if we as songwriters could take a moment to be thankful for what songwriting has brought to our lives. It could be our own songwriting or songwriting by other people. Maybe it was a song somebody wrote for you. I’ll start.

I’m thankful that songwriting brought me to Nashville, where I met my wife. I was roommates with her brother (a cowriter), and she came to visit. Thank you, songwriting!!!

I’m thankful for all the hours I spent back home with my best friend, Tim Meitzen, camping and writing songs around a campfire. Those nights of creating and dreaming are some of my favorite memories.

I’m thankful for all the hours I’ve been blessed to spend in the writing room with good people and great talents. I’m thankful for all the laughter in those rooms. I’m thankful for some of the tears in those rooms. I’m thankful for the honesty in those rooms. And for the private concerts when I get to write with great singers!

I’m thankful for the songs that act like time capsules. I’m thankful that I can listen to worktapes and demos and remember the fun I had writing those songs or the people and situations that inspired them.

I’m thankful that my kids and grandkids (Lord willing) will be able to listen to my songs and remember me and know me through them.

I’m thankful that the other day I got to hear my wife and kids upstairs having “praise time.” They were banging away on instruments and singing along to a gospel song I helped write. That was a blessing.

I’m thankful that I live in a country where I can pack up, cross state lines, and chase a crazy dream. In a lot of countries throughout a lot of world history, people have been TOLD what their jobs will be. I’m thankful for this freedom.

I’m thankful for everyone who has ever told me they like one of my songs, or that it moved them.

I’m thankful for every person who has believed in me- everyone from my parents to friends back home to publishers who’ve signed me to deals.

I’m thankful for every artist, indie or major, who has ever sung my words.

And I’m thankful for the Man vs. Row community. You’re awesome.  What are YOU thankful for today?  I’d love to read your comments!

God Bless and Enjoy the Journey,

Brent

Brent Baxter is a hit songwriter with cuts by Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Lady Antebellum, Joe Nichols, Gord Bamford, Ruthie Collins, Ray Stevens, and more. He’s written a top 5 hit in the US and a #1 in Canada… so far.

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