Book info

• Title How to Write One Song
• Author Jeff Tweedy
• Year 2020
• Genre Non-fiction

One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing and offers a warm, accessible guide to writing your first song, championing the importance of making creativity part of your everyday life and experiencing the hope, inspiration and joy that accompanies it.

Thoughts

This is such a good, short book that breaks some of the barriers that you might have built up if you’ve ever thought about writing a song. Jeff Tweedy of Wilco talks through the basic mindset you need to start writing, and then gives some hints, tips and exercises on ways to kick off that creative process. What I love about it is that it makes songwriting seem possible, where most of the time it seems like a magical untouchable process. Tweedy admits there’s an element of that but the hard graft you put in makes that moment possible. I’m not in the right headspace to start a new hobby of writing songs but if and when I ever do want to, I’m reaching for this book first.

Rating: 4 / 5