Author Richard Jewkes Like a lot of young boys of almost any decade since the 60’s, I wanted to be a rock musician. I started playing in bands in junior high school and taught myself guitar and piano listening to the Beatles and Bob Dylan. I tried over and over to writes songs like they were writing to no avail. Years later I came to the realization that successful musicians weren’t trying to emulate or copy other artists, they were writing … [Read more...]