Carpenter, along with co-writer Scott Tonkinson, was the September/October 2010 winner of the lyric contest, which is featured in each issue of American Songwriter. The duo took first place for a song called “Notches,” and the victory helped Carpenter decide that he needed to be living in Nashville if he was going to see success as a songwriter or an artist, or maybe both. “I entered the American Songwriter Lyric Contest, and winning was a big thing for me. I was already coming back and forth to Nashville pretty regularly by then, and winning the lyric contest kind of showed me I was doing something right, and hopefully someday I’d graduate from winning a contest to getting a cut with a major artist. That song was really the one that got me started, got my name around in Nashville. I moved to town in 2011.” Read Lance's full story here: https://americansongwriter.com/music-business-miracle-lyric-contest-victory-billboard-1/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZx3bM3C3Uc

The Mavericks perform "Born To Be Blue" at the American Songwriter office. Check out more exclusives with The Mavericks on our website: https://americansongwriter.com/?s=The+Mavericks ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHjvZ74f4U

Paul McCartney & Third Man Records Release Mini-Doc ‘McCartney/333’ in Honor of 2020 LP On November 3, two musical entities that need no introduction, Sir Paul McCartney and Jack White’s Third Man Records, released a new mini-documentary, McCartney/333. This documentary details the behind-the-scenes process of the vinyl pressing for the former Beatle’s limited release “333 Edition” of his 2020 solo album, McCartney III, which he produced with Third Man. According to a statement about the new work: “The documentary specifically illuminates the process by which vinyl copies of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II were broken down and reformed into 333 limited-edition copies of McCartney III at Third Man Pressing. Several Third Man Records employees, including co-founder Ben Swank, are interviewed for the film alongside esteemed Rolling Stone journalist Rob Sheffield, all spliced in alongside footage of McCartney creating the album in his studio.” Have a groundbreaking lyric the world needs to hear? Enter the Lyric Contest today: https://bit.ly/3BLeVUF Don't forget to subscribe for more! Catch American Songwriter LIVE on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/americansongwriter Follow ▶ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/americansongwriter ▶ Website: https://www.americansongwriter.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanSongwriterMagazine ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmerSongwriter ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americansongwriter/ ▶ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-songwriter-magazine ▶ Tumblr: https://americansongwriter.tumblr.com/ ▶ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/americansongwriter/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH2sz_xhSLg

"For me [Famous Friends] is more meaningful, for a couple reasons, one, that song specifically calls out the people who made me who i am, my friends that i grew up with, that most people wouldn’t know. I think thats one of the reasons that so many people related to that song. Its about the teachers, the friends, the firefighters, the people that you just grew up around that might not be famous to everybody else, but they’re famous to you and they’re famous when you go back to your hometown. That connection is so real for everybody. " Don't forget to subscribe for more! Follow ▶ Website: www.americansongwriter.com ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanSongwriterMagazine ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmerSongwriter ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americansongwriter/ ▶ Tumblr: https://americansongwriter.tumblr.com/ ▶ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/americansongwriter/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQWqfHa-mA