Thursday, July 27, 2006

If You've Done It, Teach It...

It goes for any profession. If you are a property investment entrepreneur and have achieved success, perhaps you would now want to teach others how to jump on the ladder.

Award winning songwriter Kim Mclean has chosen to teach her craft with new title as 'professor of songwriting' at Trevecca University of Nashville.

She certainly has the credentials - with not only having recorded over 200 songs by artists (such as Tim McGraw, Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack and a host of others) but has also had her compositions in TV sitcoms, Such as West Wing and Hope and Faith.

Her career spans over 20 years and has a wealth of knowledge to share with aspiring songwriters.

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Dove Award winning songwriter, Kim McLean accepts a new title this fall as Adjunct Professor of Songwriting at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville. With over twenty years of professional songwriting experience and over two hundred songs recorded by artists like Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack, Trisha Yearwood, The Martins, LordSong, The Florida Boys, The Nelons, Sierra, and more, Kim McLean will share songwriting technique, craft, and inspiration with students beginning with the fall semester August 29, 2006.

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I've Found That The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get...

Those are the words of songwriter Hal Kethcum who's success came at age 38.

He says "the never-ending thirst to learn more keeps my creativity going".

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Write a song sometime. Go ahead, come up with an idea perhaps about love -- and give it a go.

Not real easy.

But for Hal Ketchum, songwriting seemingly comes as naturally as his next breath. Scheduled to appear tonight at the Cary Street Café, the singer-songwriter long ago set his life's course into action.

"I wrote a poem for my mother, and it got her attention. I thought, 'Cool, this is a great way to get attention,'" Ketchum said by phone last Friday afternoon from his home in Nashville. "I started to put words down. It's still my favorite thing to do. Sometimes it's like having your own radio station in your head."

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/ BY TOM NETHERLAND
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