Ep. 60: John Shanks

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Our guest is a Grammy winning and six-time nominated songwriter, producer and guitarist. He has produced and/or written 45 #1 singles, 91 #1 albums and 60 million records sold to date in the genres of Rock, Pop and Country music. He has won a Grammy for Producer of the Year. And to those in the industry, his work is considered the gold standard. He started playing guitar in high school and performing with his band around LA. His incredible talent on guitar was the source of his first break, when he was asked to become Teena Marie’s tour guitarist at the age of seventeen. But songwriting was never far away, and he was soon writing jingles and themes for commercials and movies of the week, even as his guitar skills remained in high demand for demos and session work. A meeting with Melissa proved to be the next turning point in his career. After briefly playing guitar in her band, he left to concentrate on his own writing and production. Since then he has worked artists such as Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, The Corrs, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Cocker, Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Santana, Michelle Branch, Fleetwood Mac, Miley Cyrus, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Annie Lennox and numerous others. And The Writer Is...John Shanks!

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0:00.0	Welcome to season 4 of and the writer is. I am your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:15.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each
0:19.2	session is the first hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:26.0	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs,
0:30.8	and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs.
0:34.6	I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, big deal music publishing, and mega house
0:39.4	music management.
0:41.1	If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this podcast, follow us on our
0:44.8	socials, find out about special events, or buy some of our merchandise, go to our
0:50.2	website www and the writer is.
0:54.8	Oh, and if you enjoy and the writer is,
0:57.2	please rate and subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
1:01.1	or whatever your preferred podcast listening to iTunes.
1:04.0	Hey, I don't know what kind of speakers you guys listen to at home,
1:10.0	but recently my friends of Sono sent me a new speaker and I took it out of the box downloaded the app
1:14.8	set it up in no time and sure enough my living room sounds basically like my studio.
1:21.0	The full frequency range is there it's clear my vocals were clear. my
1:24.0	vocals were clear my vocals were clear my bass was clear I now I'm playing the album I've spent years on the wrong man
1:30.3	I'm playing
1:39.7	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber I get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats, so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone
1:47.1	else's.
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