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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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.