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Inspiration VS Deadlines: Two Paths to a Song Do you write better from inspiration or with a deadline?

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Why Music Theory is like Boating I have to get my boating license next summer. I bought a book to study for the boating license test. Inside the book is one of the most perfectly worded paragraphs I have ever read that makes a com

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Graydon James

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." -- Bertrand Russell

Genre:

Folk and Traditional
Rock and Pop

Biography:

I started out as a drummer for various indie rock bands and eventually began recording my own songs and formed my own band (The Young Novelists) in 2009. We regularly tour Canada and the US, we've won a few songwriting awards, and we were named New/Emerging Artist at the 2015 Canadian Folk Music Awards.

In addition, I have my own studio space (Typewriter Studio) and work as a producer, recording engineer, and session drummer as well as co-managing my band and writing songs. I'm also a dad and I've published one novel (The Mall of Small Frustrations) and written essays and short stories for a few publications, including the Songwriter's Market 2015.

Like most songwriters I like excuses to procrastinate, and I dig brevity.

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