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	<title>Richard M. Hunt</title>
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	<description>I write songs. I hope you like them</description>
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		<title>And how about a word of thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Ryan Michael Galloway (http://www.facebook.com/rmgalloway) and others like him who make opportunities available to songwriters like me. Ryan is one of the founders of the Collin County Songwriters Association (ccsongwriters.org) and an active writer and performer who also takes the time to hook up local performers with local opportunities. He also offers some genuinely useful information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, they liked my song!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, when you have your own web site and you put your own recordings up for the world to hear you clearly aren&#8217;t shy. So here it is. One of my songs &#8211; &#8220;Open Mic Night&#8221; got an Honorable Mention in the &#8220;Other Category&#8221; for the Austin Songwriters Group annual contest. Two others &#8211; &#8220;Fool&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies made for pleasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had said it first, but it comes from Francis Bacon &#8211; not the modern artist, but the Baron of Verulam and Lord Chancellor of England in the late 14th and early 15th century. Since I can&#8217;t paraphrase him better than he wrote, here is the first part of his essay on truth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songwriting Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the seminars I attended this weekend I went back through all my old seminar notes. There was lots of technical stuff about song forms, rhymes, rhythms and such, but mixed in were a lot things that aren&#8217;t technical, but everyone that writes professionally seems to say. So, from notes of seminars with Gary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is beautiful, in its own way . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just finishing the first necessary cup of coffee before heading downstairs to day 3 of the Austin Songwriters Organization 2012 Annual Symposium. Like many of the participants I rounded out my Friday night by staying up till 2 playing in a song circle. Earlier in the evening I played in the songwriter&#8217;s showcase and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a left turn at the second verse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first chance I ever had to play one of my songs for a genuine publisher from Nashville I was told, in a kindly way, that the song was boring because the second verse said the same thing as the first verse. It was a song I really liked, and I decided he was just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs that Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year at the Austin Songwriters annual Symposium I was struck by one comment from a very successful songwriter from Nashville. When asked about the formulaic approach to songwriting that seems to pervade country and pop music he said that he had helped write hit songs he didn&#8217;t really care for, but that his job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mythical landscape of country music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The characters in country music songs live in a mythical landscape that is only a little bit like the real world. This post describes that landscape and the people in it.]]></description>
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		<title>First Lines &#8211; what hit songs really do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you attend enough songwriting seminars you&#8217;ll soon be stuffed with rules about how to write hits or even how to write good songs. Last week I got into a discussion at a meeting of my local NSAI chapter about first lines, and what they have to do. Since it was my first lines that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Baby James &#8211; Why is that song so damn good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard James Taylor sing Sweet Baby James in a concert last week. He&#8217;s probably sung it ten thousand times, and the audience must have heard it that many times, but it didn&#8217;t sound old or tired or boring. So I thought I&#8217;d take a close look at the lyrics and melody to see what [...]]]></description>
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