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andydavis

Nashville, Tennessee
29 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist
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LEVEL
professional
GENRES
Alternative Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Soul
PUBLISHING COMPANY
Really Complicated Music, I own my own publishing
Contact
Booking: jow@wma.com
P.R.O.
ASCAP
INSTRUMENTS
acoustic guitar / piano / vocals
INFLUENCES
the meters, queen, little feat, elton john, randy newman, joni mitchell, john lennon, paul mccartney, stevie wonder, paul simon, led zeppelin, rolling stones, radiohead, sly stone, otis redding, beach boys, jeff buckley, little walter, others.
I AM INTERESTED IN
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:
For a living

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

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
experience >
SONG CUTS
Matt Wertz recorded "Back In June" on Under Summer Sun
SONG PLACEMENTS
ABC Family--"Beautiful People"
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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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