Loving this connection between sports and music! I can tell from reading this that you’re a good parent too. As for songs that kinda just came out of their creator unwittingly, Mitski has said that she was just walking around one day when the chorus to “My Love Mine All Mine,” her only Hot 100 entry, came to her almost involuntarily. The magic and mystery of songwriting!
Thanks, Max! Listening to that now and adding it to the playlist, too. I also love the connection to movement with it arriving while walking around. I know I have heard a Johnny Cash interview where he described how forcing it seldom seemed worked but going for a walk often produced a song on the other side. In short, you just re-wrote my issue with a better example!
Loving this connection between sports and music! I can tell from reading this that you’re a good parent too. As for songs that kinda just came out of their creator unwittingly, Mitski has said that she was just walking around one day when the chorus to “My Love Mine All Mine,” her only Hot 100 entry, came to her almost involuntarily. The magic and mystery of songwriting!
Thanks, Max! Listening to that now and adding it to the playlist, too. I also love the connection to movement with it arriving while walking around. I know I have heard a Johnny Cash interview where he described how forcing it seldom seemed worked but going for a walk often produced a song on the other side. In short, you just re-wrote my issue with a better example!
Walking is when epiphanies happen! For me too, sometimes, not just the musicians we love.