YouTube Gems: Rodney Hayden

Seems only appropriate on Rodney and Johnny's birthday (and mine!):

You know those annoying ads on the side of most blogs and sites?

Here's the countryfied version:

Songs Illustrated #14

John Rich's Songwriting Tips #30

Don't sell out. Set your writing principals right up front and stand by them. Believe it or not, this one's set in stone for me. I will never compromise myself from the belief that you should only write schlock, dreck, trite crap... whatever it takes to keep them royalty checks filling up your gold-plated mailbox at the end of your dogwood lined brick driveway. No way in the pit of Hades would I stoop to writing story songs, Americana, alt-anything or something with literary references. Porn references maybe. Live by this creed: Dance with the bitch that brung ya.

*Not actually written by John Rich.

Suggested new logos for country artists #2