{"id":698,"date":"2016-10-14T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\"I am very excited to announce the release of \u201c<strong>Take It To The Bridge: Unlocking The Great Songs Inside You<\/strong>.\u201d I\u2019ve been working on it with <strong>Mark Caro<\/strong> for many years as an extension of my songwri"},"modified":"2016-10-14T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:45:14","slug":"dolly-vardens-steve-dawson-has-co-written-a-book-take-it-to-the-bridge-unlocking-the-great-songs-inside-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Varden&#8217;s Steve Dawson has co-written a book: Take It To The Bridge, Unlocking The Great Songs Inside You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>&#8220;I am very excited to announce the release of \u201c<strong>Take It To The Bridge: Unlocking The Great Songs Inside You<\/strong>.\u201d I\u2019ve been working on it with <strong>Mark Caro<\/strong> for many years as an extension of my songwriting classes at The Old Town School of Folk Music. The book aims to encourage and inspire anyone who\u2019s ever thought about writing a song through practical, approachable assignments that explore all elements of songwriting: form, lyrics, chords, melody and rhythm. The exercises were culled from 10 years of weekly assignments. Mark and I chose the ones that have had the best results over the years and seem to help people open up and write to their best potential. <strong>The book can be ordered direct from GIA, the publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giamusic.com\/search_details.cfm?title_id=28708&amp;artist=hUzYFaXNNu1R&amp;brand=me\">now at this link.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>-Steve Dawson<\/p>\n<p>We have <strong>2 big events<\/strong> coming up to celebrate the book release where you can buy the book from us in person and get a <strong>sheet of stickers<\/strong> for self-application as you complete the assignments!<br \/>\n<strong>Sat October 15 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketweb.com\/t3\/sale\/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&amp;eventId=6863135&amp;pl=space&amp;REFID=home\">SPACE in Evanston<\/a>, 1pm<\/strong><br \/>\npre-release event with Mark and Steve playing songs and talking about the book<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun Dec 4 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldtownschool.org\/concerts\/2016\/12-04-2016-steve-dawson-and-mark-caro-take-it-to-the-bridge-book-release-7pm\/\">The Old Town School of Folk Music\u2019s Szold Hall<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBook Release Spectacular with <strong>Dolly Varden<\/strong> and a cavalcade of stars<br \/>\nmore info on that soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1423 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-cover-final-718x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 85vw, 261px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-cover-final-718x1024.jpg 718w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-cover-final-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-cover-final-768x1096.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/book-cover-final-1200x1712.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"book-cover-final\" width=\"241\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1424 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRO160701_22f-683x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 85vw, 254px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRO160701_22f-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRO160701_22f-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRO160701_22f-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevedawsonmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CRO160701_22f.jpg 800w\" width=\"245\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am very excited to announce the release of \u201cTake It To The Bridge: Unlocking The Great Songs Inside You.\u201d I\u2019ve been working on it with Mark Caro for many years as an extension of my songwriting classes at The Old Town School of Folk Music. The book aims to encourage and inspire anyone who\u2019s<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"btn-filled btn\" href=\"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/?p=698\" title=\"Dolly Varden&#8217;s Steve Dawson has co-written a book: Take It To The Bridge, Unlocking The Great Songs Inside You\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollyvarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}