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Joey Lambert / hardtosmile

Sanford, North Carolina
48 Years Old
Songwriter, Lyricist, Composer
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BIOGRAPHY
Grade school, high school, College
High school bands - trombone
Marching, concert, stage band, pep band, ROTC band

Taught continuing education courses for 3 quarters at CCCC in Sanford, NC and 3 quarters at Sandhills Community College and then started Lambert Computer Center in June of 1983.

Have written 29 songs and more sets of lyrics.

Tried submitting for Rock acts in 2000 to Aerosmith etc. and found that to be difficult.

Heart broken lead to lyrics and songs that fit the country Genre. Hired a producer in Nashville with a singer and professional session musicians to craft a DEMO from one of those.

Hoping to be published and earn something from one so I might travel and help my relatives out.
LEVEL
aspiring
Contact
Administrative: Joey Lambert
INSTRUMENTS
keyboard / trombone
INFLUENCES
Hank Sr J Cash Glenn Miller Band Maynard Ferguson Alan Jackson Willy Nelson Aerosmith Heart Pink FLoyd
DAY JOB
Computer Systems Specialist
I WRITE:
It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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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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