I, Lisa Aschmann, am a songwriter/singer and a longtime member of SFFMC. I reside in Nashville, TN and sometimes Santa Cruz, CA. I just want to wave my hand toward the iceberg that is my songwriting, and say, there’s a lot of it.
My website (www.songwritingideas.com) is named after my book, titled, 1000 Songwriting Ideas. 9 of my 10 CDs are downloadable through YouTube
(www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2S7C4D3KXkrHISCl_oE7w) and other sites. (The one not on the internet is The Birds.)
I’ve had about 300 film and TV usages/licenses ranging from a rhumba in Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp, to a scene where Kristin Chenowith is ice skating to a Christmas song, to a bunch of whodunits such as Criminal Minds and Hercule Poirot. Lots of them are lounge-ey jazz and Big Band songs co-written with Joel Evans, AKA Joe Lervold, but I’ve had folk, blues, bluegrass and
Americana cues, too, and over twelve hundred recordings by such diverse artists as Kevin So, Crystal Shawanda, Shaun Murphy, Jack Pearson, and Peter Tork of the Monkees, The Little River Band, Art Garfunkel, Ricky Skaggs, Diamond Rio, Rita Coolidge, Colin Raye, Queen of Hearts, Valdy, the Becky Buller Band, Lowery Olafsen, Valerie Smith, Wayfaring Stranger, Glenn and Holly Yarborough, Aiofe O’Donovan, etc., yedda, yedda. Most recently (just a few weeks ago) I’ve got a song on Michelle Prentice’s CD, Mama’s Lullabye and a train song on Rebecca Frazier’s album on Compass Records, entitled, Boarding Windows in Paradise. (Dana Cooper and I have another song on that label, too, called, “I Am”.)
I am nothing if not enthusiastic about songwriting, and want to help others to feel the same. Folk music affects everything I write and sing, but, as Duke Ellington said; “It’s all folk music, horses don’t make music”.
