It is that time of year again when songwriters from around the world prepare to congregate in the hill country of Texas for eighteen days of music, music and more music.
If you have never had the Kerrville experiance click on the logo and visit their website. There will be over a hundred performers on two stages and workshops covering songwriting, blues guitar, harmonica, songwriters guitar and partial capos.
The festival runs from May 22nd to June 8th.

The May meeting was quieter than normal, we changed to the first Sunday of the month due to Mothering Sunday. Seven songs where presented. Our critique meister, Mike Darnell did an excellant job keeping the music and comments flowing and Danny Ligget had his fingers flying over the keyboard recording the critique comments. Once again the standard was so high we ended up with five songs nominated for the song of the year.


You must be a paid up member to enter a song for critiques or to vote on the song of the month.
You can play live or bring in a CD version of your song. The only stipulation is that the song has never been released for sale to the public.


The winners of the song of the month for the May 2008 critique session were :
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Tony Ryan/Katherine Wong - The Other Woman
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Dusty Duhon - Doing The Best I Can
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Tracy Park - El Zono Loco
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Zane Nordin - Mexican T.V. Dinner Blues
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Robert Chaney - Wait For Me (Rally)
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Congratulations to this month's winners. All songs chosen as song of the month are eligible for the song of the year voting at the end of the year.

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Each month our members bring in some of the more unusual items for their collection of instruments. Some may have an interesting history, some are just plain wierd !!

In May, Mike Darnell brought in his Dobro Resinator Guitar, Tracy Parks showed his six string GuitJo and Gary Taylor brought us the wierdest instrument of the day with his Marxolin.

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You got a wierd and wonderful instrument? Bring it along to the next meeting and share it with the other members.


Mike Darnell

Gary Taylor

Congratulations to Mike Darnell 2007 songwriter of the year and Andrew Richardson song of the year 2007.


Mike Darnell

Andrew Richardson
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© Houston Songwriters Association 2008

Dusty Duhon - May 08

Zane Nordin - May 08

Robert Chaney - May 08
  • Bill Aspinwall - March 08
  • Mike Darnell - March 08
  • Patti Guyer - March 08
  • Tony Ryan - Feb 08
  • Willie B - Jan 08

  • Patti Guyer/Mike Darnell
    Waiting

    Pat Bishop/Ron Tintner
    In And Out Of My Life

    Patricia T. Bishop
    The Downside of Life

    Robert Chaney
    The Chase

    Sandra Maldonado
    Still Standing

    Mike Darnell
    Baby It's A Long Way Home

    Robert Chaney
    Empress of Old Orleans

    Ron Tinter/Pat Bishop
    Rosalinda