For this special episode, Phil dives deep on the Burt Bacharach / Hal David song This Guy’s in Love With You, made popular in 1968 by Herb Alpert.

We talked about:

• Our Songwriting Challenge for 2023, and thank-you to everyone who have already sent in their songs!
• Using ChatGTP to write (a really vanilla draft of) your lyrics
• Songwriting Workshop with Susan Cattaneo: Recoloring the Chorus
• The benefit to analyzing great songs
• Balancing complexity and simplicity in your songs
• Writing a really simple chorus with a catchy tag on the end
• Writing melodies with call and response or A/B structures, and evolving into variations
• The King of Tears | Revisionist History (pushkin.fm), a great deep dive on Bobby Braddock, sad songs, and country music