Lesson 3 · Jolene
Conversational Truth
The best country and folk lyrics sound like someone talking. Not performing, not reciting, not delivering poetry — talking. The way a person talks when it is late and they have had just enough to drink to be honest but not enough to be sloppy. That is the voice of a great Americana lyric.
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Jolene takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.
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