South Hadley, Massachusetts
41 Years Old
Composer, Producer, Vocalist

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"I prefer a memory to a photograph (Richard Julian)"

BIOGRAPHY

Tony Lechner is an award-winning songwriter and the owner of Wild-Wood Studio (www.wild-wood.com/studio) where he produces music for artists and commercial applications. Tony's band Wild-Wood performs Indie Folk around New England (www.wild-wood.com). Tony's latest production is The Rosewood Project (www.myspace.com/rosewoodproject) which features the incredible vocals of Rose Whitcomb as well as the instrumental talents of Miro Sprague and Ross Bellenoit.

To learn more about Tony, visit: www.TonyLechner.com

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Jazz, Indie Rock, Alternative Pop

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Wild Wood Music, independent publishing company

Contact

Management: Tony Lechner
Publishing: Tony Lechner
Administrative: Tony Lechner

P.R.O.

SESAC

INSTRUMENTS

bass / acoustic guitar / piano / trumpet / vocals

INFLUENCES

Andy Partridge; The Beatles; Sting; Kevin Gilbert; Mark Knoppfler; Jonatha Brooke; Suzanne Vega; The Ditty Bops; Take 6; The Real Group; Cadence; Oscar Peterson; Bill Evans; Maria Schneider; Debussy; Ravel; Shostakovich; Duke Ellington;

DAY JOB

Music Teacher at performing arts high school

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

When I have time

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

John Lennon Songwriting Contest Award "The Adventures of Sticky Burr" (Tony Lechner/John Lechner) in Children's Music Category Award: Finalist (runner up) OurStage Monthly Song Contest "Midnight Stars" (Tony Lechner) in Jazz category Award: $5,000 Grand Prize & Channel Prize John Lennon Songwriting Contest Award "Midnight Stars" (Tony Lechner) in Jazz category Award: Finalist Billboard World Songwriting Contest Award "Midnight Stars" (Tony Lechner) in Jazz Category Award: Honorable Mention

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Q&A: Bright Eyes

After a brief stint as a solo artist, Conor Oberst has revived Bright Eyes to release The People’s Key, an album that deals with the nature of time, spirituality, and human existence. Also, it’s Rastafarian friendly.

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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,