“You would think that suffering leads to good art, but that’s false. I find it stifling.” Like most songwriters, Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses has found the past two years to be a bane to his creative process.
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Allison Russell and Aoife O’Donovan are celebrated songwriters—and working moms. This makes for a songwriting process in which the only ritual is recognizing that you don’t have one.
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Artists are always searching for the ideal creative state, that perfect time when the songs effortlessly flow. For both Anaïs Mitchell and Charlotte Cornfield, that ideal state involves, well, not really being aware of when they’re in that ideal state.
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