ASCAP Interview in Austin

This interview with ASCAP isn’t really about Austin or South By Southwest, in fact it was more about the last ASCAP Songwriter Expo that I spoke at. I remember the Songwriter Expo as the occasion on which I told the audience of several hundred songwriters that if they sent or gave me a CD of their songs, I would likely not listen to the CD, but I would be sure to recycle the jewel case. Anyway, back to this interview, I thought the questions were interesting and they touched on some things about collaborating that I don’t usually get to talk about on camera. The loud and bluesy music in the background is a good emblem of what SXSW is like all the time – usually, though, wherever you go you can hear three or four loud and bluesy bands at the same time. Unfortunately, I find the sound of three or four simultaneous loud bands of any type to be very depressing, so Sixth Street in Austin during SXSW is not the greatest setting for my mental health. Luckily, there’s just the one in the background of this interview.