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I posted a song I cowrote on songramp.com/ande
do you know who the vocalist is?
http://www.songramp.com/view.ez?sampleid=16295

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Dear IFS Friends,

It's funny how inspiration comes and goes, depending upon whats going
on in my life.
Lately I've been helping ASG with it's song contest so I haven't been
doing much songwriting. The final event is Wednesday June 2nd. I'll
be there, ASG is going to announce and award the winners in the 2004
Austin Song Contest.

Yesterday I asked john Arthur martinez if he'd play in ASG's writer
in the round on Wedneday and he agreed.

I helped process ASG's Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting School
Scholarship Recipients.

Below I've included the list of finalists in ASG's contest and I'm
thrilled to see many IFS readers, friends, cowriters and future
cowriters on the list. Congratulations and good luck.

I sat beside Floramay Holliday in a restaurant today.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/floramay


I read this quote for the first time.

One secret to helping dreams come true is recognizing that we don't
know how to do it. Our society would tell us: Go get answers. Find
somebody who does know. Study those who have gone before you. Those
steps are important but deep down we also need to trust the process.
After all, if we knew all the steps and had done this before, what we
are building would be less than a dream. By leaning into our longing,
we feel a greater expression of ourselves each day. And in this
greater state, we begin to co-create with God, trusting that the
steps will be revealed, even if only one at a time.
Mary Manin Morrissey

Many friends and IFS readers are at the Kerrville Folk Festival
www.kerrville-music.com

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ASG's 2004 Austin Song Contest Category finalists are:
(in alphabetical order,
please let us know if
we made any spelling or missing cowriter errors)


Barebones:
1. Fair Weather Friend - Laura Harris
2. I Wish You Here - Lealean Peace
3. No Secrets - Slade Crabtree and Cheryl Murdock
4. Silver Train - Charlotte Ryerson
5. So Long Perfection - Aaron Rosetto
6. Square One - Laura Harris
7. Stained Glass - Danny Schmidt
8. Stolen Moments - Helen Faye, Aaron See, James Allan, Tim Shewmake,
Christopher Wagner and DeAwna Edwards
9. The Stories In My Mind - Dennis Livingston
10. Tulsa - Joe Montgomery
11. You Hold Me Still - H. Shupp Salas


Country:
1. 2 Step Process - Kurt Orning
2. Blink Of An Eye - Greg Whitefield
3. How A Moment Becomes A Memory - Donna Aylor, Blake Hill and Brock
Goodwin
4. How Deep It Was - Slade Crabtree and Cheryl Murdock
5. I Love You For Leaving - Donna Aylor, Mark Oates and Blake Hill
6. I Wouldn't Want To Be In Texas Without You - Jeff Beller and
Lauren Beller
7. Leaving Side Of Me - Charles C. Richard
8. Lying Next To Me - Michael Gdovin
9. Too Much - Lealean Peace and Dane Sterling
10. With Your Eyes - Greg Valente and Billy Dalton
11. Your Confusion - Leanne Timura and Kent Gray


Instrumental:
1. Angela's Theme - Craig Davis
2. Django Like - Brian Todd McRae
3. Driving in Rain - Timothy Gangwer
4. Ten Speed - Joe Montgomery


Lyrics:
1) Cassandra - Marilyn Rucker
2) Cryin Cowboy - Kim McDaniel
3) Feminine Wiles - Charles Moster
4) Hill Country Christmas eve - Charles Roe
6) Man Of The Finest Cloth - Jaquelyn Fraley
5) The Loneliest Lonely - Mike Hyden


Other:
1. A Friend - Craig Davis
2. After the Storm - Sheryl Crawford
3. Ahavat Olam - Joe Strouse and Jaime Shpall
4. Happy Whatever You're Having - Marilyn Rucker
5. Losing My Chances - Anita Ortiz
6. Nordstrom Melody - Vicky Emerson and David Schendel
7. We are the Squirrels - Craig Davis
8. What a Day - Steve Johnson
9. Yellow Bicycle - Billy Byron


POP
1. Always You - Brian Torres, John Elkins and Gordon Pagoda
2. Finally Found Love - Slade Crabtree and Cheryl Murdock
3. How Deep It Was - Slade Crabtree and Cheryl Murdock
4. I'll Hold On - Lealan Peace
5. Shampoo On My Pillow - Katy Belle
6. Take Me Back - Kit Holmes
7. Through The Years - Charles Moster


Rock/Blues
1. Catty, Simple-Minded Thing - Athala King
2. Feminine Wiles - Charles Moster
3. Fight Like a Girl - Bruce Jones
4. Homeland Security - Bruce Jones
5. King of a Small Town - Foscoe Jones
6. Redemption - Grace Falcon Vasquez, Aaron Vasquez and Brandon
Piscorik
7. Revolution Road- Craig Davis
8. Sunny Days Ahead - Craig Davis
9. The Day We Lit the Fuse - David Kiesel
10. Uh-Uh Man - Timothy Gangwer


Singer/Songwriter
1. Carnival - Karla Manzur
2. Everyone's Got Philosophy - Chelle Murrey
3. Fair Weather Friend - Laura Harris
4. Four Little Words - Lisa Rogers
5. How Deep It Was - Slade Crabtree and Cheryl Murdock
6. I Wouldn't Want To Be In Texas Without You - Jeff Beller and
Lauren Beller
7. Oh, Oh, Oh - Foscoe Jones
8. One Last Time - Charlotte Ryerson
9. Steady As She Goes - Joe Strouse and Robert Skiles
10. The Arms Of The Big Uneasy - Sean Michael O'Keefe
11. To Thine Own Self Be True - Laura Harris


Congratulations to all finalists and goodluck!


Contest winners will be announced at ASG's
Wed June 2nd
ASG 2004 Austin Song Contest Award Ceremony /
Monthly Meeting

Austin Songwriters Group thanks the 2004 Austin Song Contest sponsors


MEDIA Sponsors

KUT 90.5 FM Radio,
News 8 Austin,
Inspirations for Songwriters (IFS) ezine,
MusesMuse.com , and the
Austin Music Network.


ASG sends much love to this year's
Contest Prize Sponsors:
· Lovemonkey Studios
· Alta Vista Recording
· Steven Doster
· Gabe Rhodes
· Mark Addison
· MusicMakers
· CDBaby.com
· Hostbaby.com
· Cutting Edge Music Studio
· Blue World Music
· Denny Martin
· Dale Kawashima
· IndieBible.com
· Humbletime Radio
· SellarDoorStudios
· SongU.com
· WG Publications
· Jason Blume
· Allworth Publishing
· Masterwriter Software
· Uchi Restaurant
· Nancy Jay
· Kim Copeland
· Indie-music.com
· Robb McKenzie
· Music Labs of Austin
· KUT 90.5 FM Radio

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Wed June 2nd are ASG's
2004 Austin Song Contest Award Ceremony and
Monthly Meeting dinner, program and writers in the round


5:30 pm - 6:55 pm
Dinner at Maudies with Ande Rasmussen
Come talk about songwriting and meet your fellow members
You never know who's gonna show
hope to see you there!


7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
ASG's 2004 Austin Song Contest Award Ceremony
at the Saxon Pub www.thesaxonpub.com
We plan to START promptly at 7:00

We're going to announce and give certificates of merit to each
category finalist, then award first, second, and third in each
category, We'll play clips of those three then at the end we'll
announce and AWARD award the 2004 ASG Austin Song Contest Grand Prize
Winning Song.

We will be giving some great prizes to our winners.
Following the awards ceremony from:


8:15 pm - 9:40 pm
ASG Writers in the Round featuring:


john Arthur martinez ASG
Dualtone Recording Artist with distribution by SONY and
Runner up in the 2003 Nashville Star
www.johnarthurmartinez.net

David Newbould ASCAP
www.davidnewbould.com.

Tucker Livingston ASG
www.tuckerlivingston.com, and

Craig Calvert
One of ASG's founders

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congratulations to Shelly King, Nancy (These Boots Are Made For
Walkin') Sinatra has just released one of Shelley's songs on her new
album! The song is "Texas Blue Moon". Shelley released it on
her "The Highway" CD in 2002. It has now been covered by Nancy
Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood on an album titled Nancy & Lee 3, available
on Warner International Records in Australia and New Zealand
currently. It went to #15 on the Australian country charts the first
week.
US and Europe release dates are upcoming.

http://www.shelleyking.com

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an artist asked me

"If I find a couple of songs I like is it something that you as
songwriters have backgrounds to or would I have to find a band to
play the music? I am having a very hard time listening to the music
because I have dial up so I am going over to my fathers sometime next
week because he has cable connection. Thanks for your input.

Sincerely,
Heather


hi heather,

good question
most often when singers are going to create a CD
they've selected a producer and a studio to create the music
you don't need to have a band
as an example my friend denny martin is very good and can gather the
necessary musicians for your project
www.dennymartinmusic.com
that way he can create tracks that perfectly fit you and your key

some songwriters have backing tracks without vocals on their demos
i do on a few of mine
though I prefer for the artist to recreate the track
to me it makes them seem more serious about their project

your job is to find the very best songs you can

ande



Write on!

Ande Rasmussen
Editor and Publisher of I F S, Inspirations For Songwriters

Contact info is:

Ande Rasmussen
835 Martindale Falls
Martindale, TX 78655
AndeRasmussen@...

You can read my Bio at:
http://www.andersrasmussen.com/


You can hear a few of my tunes at:
http://songramp.com/ande
http://www.soundclick.com/anders

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