ROAD TO ROOSTER WALK: PAUL HOFFMAN OF GREENSKY BLUEGRASS TALKS SONGWRITING
Live For Live Music
is running a six-part series looking at the process and craft of songwriting. Each story in the series features a band leader who will perform at Rooster Walk 9. The second story focuses on Paul Hoffman of Greensky Bluegrass.
From the story:
“I’ll apply similar ideas emotionally, but not necessarily a linear story, so maybe they don’t tell a story or make sense together, but I like the way they convey an emotion together,” he said. “So when I’m halfway (done), I kind of have to look it and be like, ‘What’s missing to this point, here? This line’s cool; this line’s cool. I like how they conjure this feeling that works together, but, like, what do they mean? And what’s not there?’ And that’s how I kind of analyze them or edit them and then finish them.”