Nashville, Tennessee
47 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Songwriter, Vocalist

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"When tomorrow's a memory..."

BIOGRAPHY

Hi I'm Phil Bennett and I am a songwriter.
I am Missouri born and raised,but moved to Nashville in 2002 to further my songwriting career.
I have been writing/performing music all my life and will continue to. I play guitar and drums. I was influenced by acoustic sounds of the 70's like; James Taylor, Jim Croce and John Denver. I try to write from the heart and tell a story that makes you feel something.
So, I am currently working on some new songs and recording demos and I hope to have some new tunes uploaded soon.

Keep the faith

Phil

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Country, Folk, Singer/Songwriter

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

drums / acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

James Taylor, Vince Gill, Skip Ewing, Gretchen Peters

DAY JOB

Songwriter

I AM INTERESTED IN

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

Tiffany Rae

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

University of Missouri Department of Communications Award of Excellence for Music Visualizations

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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,