Chesapeake, Virginia
59 Years Old
Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

David James is a songwriter originally from San Rafael, California. He now resides in Chesapeake, Virginia. David is in the process of trying to get his songs published. He is a retired U.S. Navy Veteran. Feedback from people helps him with the marketing of his music. As a songwriter, David has been pitching his songs and improving the quality of his demos.

Contact

Management: None
Publishing: Noneq
Label: None
Music Supervisor: None
Booking: None
Administrative: None

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

Eagles, Alan Jackson, Billy Currington, Martina McBride, Allison Krause, Chris Young, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams.

DAY JOB

Human Resources/Admin Support

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

When I have time

I Also Write:
with others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

David James & co-writer Ricky Bailey recently won the Grand Prize "for excellence in songwriting as exhibited in the Nashville International Song & Lyric Competition for Spring 2009 for the entry: "The Auctioneer's Waltz." David James & co-writers Andi Crimmins & Peter Renfree won first prize in the VH-1 Song of the Year monthly song contest for their song "Hank on the Radio." David James & co-writer Ted Tomiuk won first place in the MakeAStar.com international song contest for their song "I Want You." David James & co-writer DeAnn Sanders were Finalists in The Sandra James Music Foundation 2009 Songwriting Contest for their song "It's My Life."

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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,