Music, Lyrics, and Life: A book by Mike Errico
by Mike Errico | Mar 29, 2021 | Books, Lessons, Music Lyrics and Life, Teaching |
The songwriting class you always wish you’d taken,
taught by the professor you always wish you’d had.
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Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter
Publisher: Backbeat Books
MUSIC, LYRICS, AND LIFE is the songwriting class you always wish you’d taken, taught by the professor you always wish you’d had. With humor and empathy, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mike Errico examines both the mystery of songwriting and the logistics of life as a songwriter. For years, this set of tools, prompts, and ideas has inspired students on campuses including Yale, Wesleyan, and New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
Alongside his musical lessons, Errico investigates larger questions of creativity with a wide range of innovative thinkers: astrophysicist Janna Levin theorizes on choruses; painter John Currin tackles song form; actor Phil LaMarr counsels on cowriting; author George Saunders unpacks authenticity; and much more. The result is that Music, Lyrics, and Life ends up revealing as much about the art of songwriting as it does about who we are and where we may be going.
MIKE ERRICO is a New York-based recording artist, writer, and lecturing professor. His opinions and insights have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and more.
I look forward to your book, Mike.
Thanks so much – I think of you often.