John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.
I also plan to release a ballads collection.
Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
Billy Pilgrim music is very emotional. It's one part the craft we learned from people like the Indigo Girls and R.E.M., and one part the Tom Waits craft, where you're trying to create a moment.
I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
