The Songwriter Diaries

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Since making Nashville her home in 2016, Rachael Mason has passionately honed her skills and expanded her portfolio as a multifaceted creative force—photographer, director, videographer, and lifestyle vlogger. Her journey into the world of visual storytelling began at a young age, inspired by her father, a fellow photographer, who started capturing their family moments when Rachael was just a baby...

Kyle Warner is an up-and-coming songwriter in Denver who crafts deeply personal songs of passion, loss, joy, and hardship. In the winter of 2020, Kyle assembled his No-Good Rotten Band to transform his songs into crackling, raucous Americana gems. Follow Kyle! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kylewarnermusic/   Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2izkUtSWPsXTr7NRnnKUci?si=YP-r1isoS8y-Ao...

Ben Pisano is a Denver-based musician, audio engineer, & producer. He has written, performed, & released music as Corsicana for nearly a decade, with 2023 seeing him release his 3rd full-length album under the name. The project served as a starting point for his career as an engineer/producer, leading Pisano to work with artists including past & present Colorado locals such as Alana Ma...

Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of poets Mike Young and Gion Davis. Chronicling years of uprooting—from Northern California to New England, Alaska to New Mexico—the music gallops and sways through hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo. The band is based in Denver and features an orchard of collaborators from the Sierra Nevadas to the Ozarks, complicating and queering the lineage of...

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Megan and Caroline take about creative burnout in the Season 10 finale of The Songwriter Diaries! Listen to their advice on recharging the old creative batteries and hear what's to come next season. Support The Songwriter Diaries! Support the Podcast - ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thesongwriterdiaries/support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.thesongwriterdiaries.com/⁠⁠⁠ Instagram...

Claire Nichols serves a sucker punch of pop prowess on a platter of biting lyricism and lush instrumentals. A flight of Nichols’ songs leaves a bold but bittersweet aftertaste; while “Aperol Spritz” is liquid confidence carbonated with spunk and seduction, “Kicking and Screaming” is a fireball shot, coaxing you toward a rage room of indie-pop angst. Her impending single, “Fleamarket Furniture” emb...

Annie Kemble is a multi talented musician who creates irresistible music with a unique jazz sound out of Des Moines, Iowa. Her captivating vocals paired with equally strong instrumentals can be heard on her latest single “Your Love is Profound” off of her upcoming full length album “Pink Limousine” coming out this October.  Annie uses her training in voice, piano, drums, and arranging along with h...

Coulter Lee Brown is a singer/songwriter, recording artist, performer, and multi-instrumentalist from Houston TX. His music lives in the cracks between genres. A vintage sound that nods to his influences — blues drenched rock & roll, electrified Americana, wailing soul, R&B, funk-inspired pop — while still breaking new ground, pushing Coulter into art that is uniquely his own. Him and his...

LA based songwriter from Denver who is known for her combination of addictive melodies and lyrical emotional intensity. Studied songwriting at The Lillehammer Institute of Music Production and Industries in Scandinavia under the direction of Grammy-winning production duo Stargate. Cate signed with Artist Publishing Group in 2021 and has been growing rapidly in the songwriter community, already lan...

The Cody Sisters Band is the very heart of contemporary acoustic music in Colorado, the United States and UK. Their propulsive instrumental solos and warm harmonies combine to grip the listener. Along with their bass player Will Pavilonis, Megan (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Maddie (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) have forged a new sound that has no equivalent match in the acoustic world today....

Anna Vaus is a singer/songwriter based in Nashville and raised in San Diego, California. Anna blends her West Coast cool with refreshing hooks and unmistakably relatable lyrics. Her music has been likened to that of Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves and Maggie Rogers (Billboard, Holler Country). She partnered with Luke Laird (Kacey Musgraves) to co-produce her latest EP, “Younger Version of Myself,&qu...

Derek Dames Ohl is like warm butter on hot bread with blustering conduct. As a modern day herald Derek keeps his roots close with a six string on his back, ping-ponging across the United States sharing songs at every bar or dive that dares. Sounds that eclipse and perfect everything from country, blues and honky-tonk. His pride in keeping the American roots tradition alive, with punchy guitar play...

Well-versed in the art of puns and guitar-shredding, Kate Cosentino’s music is something of jazzy sleekness atop the lyrical precision of witty slam poetry. Whether you saw her rock the stage as a part of Niall Horan's team for Season 23 of The Voice or saw one of her many goofy social media posts, Cosentino's fun-loving personality, unique sense of style, and witty songwriting shine throu...

Sarah Gargano is a 24 year old singer/songwriter born and raised in NYC. Sarah has been writing since she was fifteen & released her first EP in 2018. American Songwriter quoted Sarah as having “highly melodic acoustic-based songs consistently feature insightful and introspective lyrics that often tackle unusual subjects.” A travel fanatic, Sarah opened for Jeffrey Lewis in Huddersfield, Engla...

Bold and unflinching, Mary Heather Hickman's songs tell stories that pack a punch. From no-holds-barred confessionals about her questionable taste in men ("Treasure") to tongue-in-cheek accounts of illicit teenage love ("Baptist Parking Lot") to modern-day murder ballads ("Ouachita River"), her songwriting is both personable and edgy, delivered with a sly dose of...

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Chris Koza is a composer and performer based in Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both solo and with his band Rogue Valley, he has supported and shared the stage with artists such as Brandi Carlile, Gordon Lightfoot, Ingrid Michaelson, The Jayhawks, Neko Case, Kathleen Edwards, Dan Wilson, and Stephen Kellogg,  among others. His music appears regularly on ABC’s General Hospital, 60 Minu...

Amava is a vibrant 26 year-old who grew up in the folds of the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific-Northwest. With a background in indie-folk music, her soundscape treads the waters of folk-style, metaphor heavy writing through the lens of modern day pop and hyperpop song themes and production. Amava blends the line of indie-folk storytelling over a warped, magnetic pop sound. She cites the incredibl...

Children of Divorce is what happens when you get three femme songwriters who love Taylor Swift and Harry Styles together. Genevieve Glimp, Finn O’Sullivan, and Katie Yeager met while studying music in college and found that they all liked singing about queer love, shitty men, and the objects of their fandoms. À la boygenius, they each perform as solo artists alongside playing with the trio. Follow...

You leave a part of yourself everywhere that you go. Leo Dolan’s cross-pollination of songwriter aesthetics and art-pop instrumentation shines on “Breathlessness”. The song treads lightly on the idea that you can learn from the past, but you can never change it. The two modes of time are intertwined; the past bleeds into the present. The insecurity and doubt that are brought to the surface when pr...

Fresh out of Sophomore year, Nina Dorighi and Laura Steadman were pulled into a band by a music educator in Denver. They hardly knew each other until one night when their other bandmates didn’t show up for rehearsal. Here, Laura was encouraged to share a song she’d been writing and the two instantly bonded thanks to the poignant vulnerability in the lyrics. Laura had been writing songs since middl...

At twenty four years old, Nicole Miller has the vocal conviction of a veteran performer. She learned to love live music from listening to her musician parents as they made music in the family basement. She wrote her first song when she was twelve, already knowing in her heart and soul that music would be her life’s passion. She perfected her vocal style while performing in the community theater in...

Thunderstorm Artis is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Soaring vocals meet dextrous, layered guitar and intimate storytelling that can evoke the poetic lyricism of Passenger in one song before sliding into the wrenching neo-soul of Leon Bridges in another. Artis was born and raised in a large musical family on the North Shore of Oahu, and it’s easy to find the laid-back vibe of isl...