Pay Dirt and the Songwriting Tradition

Every songwriter has a place where if they get there, it will be pay dirt.
Usually it will be where the human condition, is perfectly intertwined 
with the songwriters own personal truth.


When pay dirt is hit as a songwriter (the money will soon follow), 
is where the audience says, "Yes, I get you."
Fans say 'yes' over and over, in support of the hit song.


In some way the hit song is the symbol of the performer (and the fan). 
Though neither the songwriter or the fans realize all this consciously, for the most part.


These symbols of our selves are hard to find.  Songwriters look for them in the alleys, and clubs, on recordings, and through other performers.  Psychotherapists can't find them for the songwriter either.  Pay dirt is kind of like an intangible truth outside our conscious awareness, until it hits.  It is somehow born through the experience of live relationships to fans.


When we know it, we know it.


That is why performing live is so important to a songwriter.  
They need to get to the pay dirt, and you as the listeners, are the ones to help.


Thank you for coming to the shows, and sharing your awareness of what you feel is the pay dirt for each of our performers.