And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan - ATWI Season Three Coming April 30th!

Episode Date: April 16, 2018

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Hey guys, this is Ross Golan, and I'm excited to announce the third season of And The Writer is. It'll be coming to you on April 30th to your nearest podcast platform. We have an incredible season in store with amazing songwriters like Ryan Teter, Nick Jonas, Mozilla, Emily Warren, Feldy, Dave Hodges, Busby, and others. Here's a sneak peek to our season. I remember it clicking in my head that people wrote songs. The first real song I wrote was called Fishing for Love. really bad. I luckily don't have a recording of it.

Can't find it. My best friend and I in the fourth grade had this horrible song called Love Triangle, which we didn't even know what that meant. I was seven years old, and someone heard me singing because I would just sing all the time. It's probably really fucking annoying,

but I did it. It was bad. It was me trying to be sting. First song I'd written was this really cheesy ballad. So we made up this song. I got a love triangle, baby. I'm going for you.

Is it possible maybe? I'm not even going to try to sing it. It's too really. This woman next to my mom said my son is doing a Broadway show in New York right now. You should take your son to his manager if he is interested in performing. I was a teenage girl, so stuff was going on in my mind with my emotions. And I was just like, I started writing all the time. It's a very cheesy baby face song.

You can Google it. I knew words rhyme, but I didn't know how deep their meaning could be. And I remember reading my mom a palm. And I give her a lot of credit. The house I grew up in with my mom and my stepdad, not musical at all. Like zero, zero music. Back in the day, I was trying to make really fancy lyrics, so I'd hit the thesaurus with everything

and just replace, like, average words with bigger words. And I was like, oh, give me a kiss, yet not bitter lust. One I can feel. One I can thrust. And she was like, I think you meant trust. Actually, I failed music in school, though. I got an F in music in school. My teacher pulled me aside and said, look, your voice, it's something different.

I didn't like learning all the like stuff you're supposed to learn. Here's a Bach piece. It's like, oh, I'd rather just let me make my own thing. And they sit the whole family down and play us a song called 24. It was the moment that they stood up and were like, we're also musicians. And I was like, oh my God, this is happening. Plus will feature an episode recorded live from USC's Thornton School of Music with our lovely Joe London and a very special episode in partnership with the Songwriters Hall of Fame where I speak with

2018 inductee, the legendary Allie Willis. I'll be there for you. I mean, she wrote that. Come on. For more information, listen to past episodes or to sign up for upcoming newsletters and your chance to win cool and The Writer is swag like a coffee mug or a baseball cap. Simply log on to www. and the writer is.com. It's all starting April 30th, so be sure to tune in.