The Craft of Songwriting with Adam Mitchell, Award Winning Producer and Songwriter

This week’s episode #128 October 11, 2013 The Craft of Songwriting with Adam Mitchell, Award Winning Producer and Songwriter.

Adam Mitchell is an award winning record producer and songwriter who has had his songs recorded by and worked with many of the music business’ most illustrious names like, Kiss, Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Manhattan Transfer, Art Garfunkle, Olivia Newton-John, Graham Nash, and many others .

A former Warner Bros. recording artist, his songs have been recorded over 150 times, in all genres and in several languages by many of the top names in music around the world. Several of his individual songs have been recorded over twenty times by different artists and his work has won numerous busic business awards, including Canada’s Juno and RPM’ Magazine’s Best New Artist.

In addition to Adam’s work as a producer and writer, he is a board member of the Songwriters Guild of America and in frequent demand as a teacher of songwriting and contributor to songwriting clinics around the world.

A partial list of artists who’ve cut Adam Mitchell songs includes…
Olivia Newton-John -“Dancing Round and Round”
Kiss – “Creatures of the Night”, “Crazy Nights”, “Danger”, “Keep Me Comin'”, “I’m a Legend Tonight”, ” Partners in Crime”, “I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You”, “Little Caesar”
Chicago – “Man to Woman”
Art Garfunkel – “The French Waltz”
John Waite – “Tears”
Nicolette Larson “Fool for Love”
Merle Haggard – “Out Among the Stars”
Anne Murray – “”Yucatán Cafe”, “TheFrench Waltz”

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Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online & social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.

Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael’s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com’s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.

Michael has also managed the online efforts for Motley Crüe, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.

About Brian Thompson:

Brian Thompson, Managing Partner for Thorny Bleeder Records, is a Vancouver based music industry entrepreneur, record label owner, artist manager, marketing consultant, radio promoter, publicist, web designer, blogger, and industry speaker.

Formerly the corporate head of music buying and marketing for a large national music retail chain, Brian has since moved on to become a well respected voice on the convergence of artist development, music marketing, social media, and technology.