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		<title>ESongwriter Songwriting Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a recent press release: July 2010 was the official launch of a new kind of international songwriting contest from Esongwriter.com. With the music industry going through an overhaul of changes, Esongwriter jumps in to bridge the gap between artists and gigs, film and television. “The right songs can generate millions of dollars” says Christa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insider Secrets to Great Songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over 25 years, Diane Warren has written top ten hits for some of the greatest voices in the recording industry. She reveals her secrets to great songwriting. And Jack Perricone, chair of the songwriting department at the Berklee College of Music, talks about songwriting across musical genres. You can listen to the NPR Talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drake&#8217;s Songwriting Tip: Use a BlackBerry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image by Getty Images via @daylife Maybe it’s conducive to his rap style of music, but Toronto-born artist/musician/songwriter/actor, Drake, uses his BlackBerry to write his raps: In this clip from the upcoming doc, Drake bops to the track Kanye West produced for &#34;Show Me a Good Time&#34; and then picks up a BlackBerry and starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, singer Phil Collins received the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala.&#160; The singer, who has sold over 100 million records as a solo artist and with the band Genesis, said writing a popular track is &#34;a complete accident&#34;. This year&#8217;s inducted songwriters included Leonard Cohen, Jackie DeShannon, David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acoustic Guitar: Jakob Dylan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the article in the latest edition of Acoustic Guitar magazine that featured Jakob Dylan.&#160; He discusses his latest, Women and Country, and waxes poetic on songwriting in general.&#160; Here’s a little snippet, but check out the whole article: When you’re working on a song, do you feel as if you understand what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray Charles&#8217; copyrights a lucrative business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very interesting article from Reuters about Ray Charles’ effect as a performer on both the songs he interpreted (helping out those songwriters’ catalogues) and his own publishing catalogue that he owned or that he wrote while under Warner/Chappell Music. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Ray Charles&#8217; birth on September 23, 2010, the Ray [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lorenzopolicelli.com/?p=537</link>
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		<title>Back to work&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I’ve been away from the songwriting blog for a while… Very busy at the day job and there were changes in my hosting/server that caused me some problems (the blog was actually down for a couple of weeks)… Anyway, I’ll be back to pass on songwriting tidbits in the near future… Ci vedimes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lorenzopolicelli.com/?p=536</link>
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		<title>Rush As Songwriters &#8211; Jacob Moon Tribute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well Rush was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 28, 2010.&#160; From an article in Monday’s Toronto Sun, Neil Peart discusses the song Subdivisions: “It’s a very unusual song construction lyrically and musically that we managed to make work,” [Peart] said. “It was written at a time when we weren’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lorenzopolicelli.com/?p=533</link>
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		<title>Jay-Z on Songwriting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolut Vodka’s Facebook Page is promoting the premiere of NY-Z, a concert plus documentary from Madison Square Garden with Jay-Z.&#160; It will premiere online on Monday, March 22. In September 2009, Absolut and Madison Square Garden announced the Absolut Concert Series, a three year partnership between the two iconic brands, dedicated to giving music fans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lorenzopolicelli.com/?p=531</link>
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		<title>World Leader/Songwriter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s love of music was publicly acknowledged by Australia’s prime minister on March 17, 2010, after he was presented with a handmade guitar during his three-day visit to the Australia. &#160; Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he hoped Yudhoyono, who has a well-known penchant for singing and songwriting, would enjoy the [...]]]></description>
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