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Welcome to the “How the Song Came to Be” Podcast where soulful songwriters share the stories behind their songs as well as tools and creative practices you can use to bring your best songs or other creative works to life.
How the Song Came to Be with Bonnie Hayes - Episode 19
How the Song Came to Be Podcast
43 minutes 5 seconds
5 years ago
How the Song Came to Be with Bonnie Hayes - Episode 19
Singer-songwriter, musician-producer and San Francisco native Bonnie Hayes wrote the hit songs "Have a Heart” and “Love Letter” from the acclaimed Bonnie Raitt album Nick of Time. She's also written songs for Cher, Bette Midler, David Crosby, Robert Cray, Adam Ant, Booker T. & the MG’s, and many more. Bonnie produced the Gospel Hummingbirds’s Grammy-nominated 1992 album Steppin’ Out, toured with pop-punk icon Billy Idol and scored a college radio hit with the 1980’s cult favorite “Shelley’s Boyfriend,” which also appeared, with another of Hayes’s songs, in the 1983 motion picture Valley Girl. Bonnie Hayes is now the chair of Berklee's Songwriting Department.
In our conversation, Bonnie shares about:
How to take the thing that is your limitation and make it your strength & uniqueness
Why specificity is what makes a song
Switching between your right and left brain while songwriting
How she wrote "Have a Heart!"
How the Song Came to Be Podcast
Welcome to the “How the Song Came to Be” Podcast where soulful songwriters share the stories behind their songs as well as tools and creative practices you can use to bring your best songs or other creative works to life.
