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Songwriter, author of `Songwriters on Songwriting,' 'Conversations with Tom Petty and many other books, photographer, Senior Editor of American Songwriter.
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American Songwriter Throwback: 2011 Q&A with Honky Tonk Girl Loretta Lynn

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By Paul Zollo 
| American Songwriter
The following article appeared in the 2011 print issue of American Songwriter. Some people are just born with it. With the gift for writing songs. Songs come to them, and they just need to write them down. It doesn’t take any agony or even much thought; it just takes time with a guitar alone to capture them as they fly by. That’s the case with Loretta Lynn. Right out of the gate, she wrote songs richer and deeper than the finest songs emerging out of Nashville.
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A Look Back: "I Know What I Know"—Paul Simon on Songwriting (American Songwriter 2011 Cover Story)

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By Paul Zollo 
| American Songwriter
Paul Simon hears voices. Or more specifically one voice, it’s the voice that gave him the phrase “so beautiful or so what.” A few years ago it became the title song of his most recent album.
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Top Best Books About Songwriting to Read

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By Paul Zollo , Jack Perricone, Jimmy Kachulis
| vnexplorer.net
1. Songwriters on Songwriting, 2. Melody in Songwriting, 3. The Songwriter's Workshop, 4. The Craft of Writing Lyrics, 5. How Music Really Works, 6. How to Become Hit Songwriters. Do you want to craft the best pop song ever but get stuck on melody and lyric writing? No worry; Toplist has compiled the best books about songwriting to read.
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