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Recommended Resources


Gear
Gibson Earl Scruggs Mastertone
Banjo
Taylor 512 Grand Concert
Acoustic Guitar
Elixir Nanoweb Light
Acoustic Guitar Strings

Excellent Used Musical Instruments
Elderly Instruments
Janet Davis Music

Songwriter Organizations
Nashville Songwriters Association International
ASCAP
BMI
SESAC

Creativity/Inspiration
Cameron, Julia, The Artist’s Way
Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down the Bones

How to Write Songs
Pattison, Pat, Writing Better Lyrics

Tools for Writing Songs
Glazier, Stephen, Word Menu
Roget’s International Thesaurus, 6th Edition
Young, Sue, The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary
Finale Music Software

Nashville Music Business
Bond, Sherry, The Songwriter’s & Musician’s Guide to Nashville
Vandiver, Jerry, and Gracie Hollombe, Your First Cut

If You Laugh at My Music, You Will Laugh At the Folk Music of:
Lou and Peter Berryman
Christine Lavin

Lewis & Clark Bicentennial:
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

If You Are Ever in this Part of the Country, You Must Visit:
National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD