by Alison Cromie | Feb 21, 2016 | Songs I've written
Early on in FAWM I had found a set of lyrics I was hoping to put music to, but nothing ever really came to me. Finally, the writer asked if I’d still consider it, and so I sat down and came up with something. I hated it. I sent it over saying as much and he took...
by Alison Cromie | Feb 20, 2016 | Songs I've written
This was a fun song to write. I was tired of writing love songs, and my lament to my husband, who happened to be playing his ukulele, inspired this one. I don’t usually do silly songs, but this was fun and just what I needed to lighten my mood. Here are the...
by Alison Cromie | Feb 19, 2016 | Songs I've written
Each week, FAWM poses a challenge to its participants, which is how this song came to be. The challenge was to write about food and the first thing that popped into my mind was the eulogy my Mom had given for my Poppa’s funeral last December. The theme of the...
by Alison Cromie | Feb 6, 2016 | Songs I've written
My second song for FAWM is Stay With Me Tonight. I started off by trying to put music to someone else’s lyrics. But the music I created just didn’t work well together (I didn’t like the combination of chorus, verse and lead in). So I scrapped the...
by Alison Cromie | Feb 5, 2016 | Songs I've written
After writing my first song, someone told me about an event called FAWM; February Album Writing Month. Songwriters come together from all over the world and spend the month of February writing music and collaborating. The goal is to get 14 songs in 28 days, but even...
by Alison Cromie | Feb 4, 2016 | Songs I've written
A little over a week ago I took out my old book of poetry from when I was a teen and started paging through, looking to see if there was anything in there that would be worth trying to turn into a song. Well, it turns out I was pretty depressed as a teen and most of...
