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Mitchell Ray

ft. worth, Texas
58 Years Old
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"The fire is warm, the embers crackle, my dreams they dance with the flames. The smell of smoke ..."
BIOGRAPHY
I cut my teeth in the early days playing rythm guitar. I never persued a professional career but always continued playing and writing. Strange how things cycle around. So now I find myself writing again and find much pleasure in it. If anyone listens to this stuff, enjoy.
LEVEL
aspiring
GENRES
Folk, Country, Singer/Songwriter
INSTRUMENTS
acoustic guitar
INFLUENCES
James Taylor Cat Stevens Don Williams John Prine
DAY JOB
Wood Craftsman
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing online
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
When I have time

I Also Write:
by myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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