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Radio 4 Extra,08 Nov 2016,29 mins
Steve Earle's Songwriting Bootcamp
Available for over a year
Legendary country singer-songwriter Steve Earle unveils the secrets of composing a great song. Since 2015, Steve Earle has run an annual four-day intensive training session – called Camp Copperhead - in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. In 2016, journalist and aspiring songwriter Hugh Levinson joined around 100 other would-be balladeers from around the world to see what they can learn both from Steve and his fellow teacher, Shawn Colvin. Listen-in to stories of dreaming, methadone, guns, jail, death and betrayal. Producer: Smita Patel First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in November 2016.
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