In our cover story with the legend Garth Brooks, he told American Songwriter how important James Taylor was to him while growing up. Brooks, who was raised in both a music-loving and at ...

There really is NO typical day in my life… but here are the basics. I am now an empty nester so my days of 6am alarms are few and far. These days I get up around 7. Before I get out of bed I check my ...

There's something about rivers that gets the creative juices of songwriters flowing. "The word 'river' is definitely a metaphor for life and, as such, fits well in a song," says local ...