Hi, Rory Bourke here, songwriter and music publisher in Nashville. Welcome to my site. I'm here all the time.

Since about 90% of my writing is done with one or two other people, the following thoughts on the art of songwriting are from a co-writer’s perspective.

What does it mean to be in Service of the Song? The concept has followed me around from writer room to writer room for some time, and until recently I hadn’t been able to verbalize exactly what it meant. The idea occurred to me from the Three Musketeers story. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis were sworn into the service of King Louis of France. They pledged their complete fidelity to the King and to protection of the throne.

“You Look So Good In Love” and “I Know A  Heartache” were on my mind one day, so I went out to Kerry’s place to see if he would tell us a little bit about how those two wonderful songs were written. Click read more to see the video.

The only thing you can file this under is unabashed self-promotion. Southern Gospel’s award winning quartet, the Dove Brothers, brings a different meaning to this wonderful copyright. Besides Anne Murray’s Grammy winning version, Anne recorded it with The Indigo Girls for her Duets CD, and BR-549 released it as a single a few years back. Over the years, this song has been preached from more than one pulpit. You can preview this latest version at dovebrothersquartet.com. The mp3 is also available on Amazon or iTunes.

How hard it is to renovate, re-do or demo (that’s destroy for the uninformed) one, especially ours. This subject might seemingly have nothing in common with songwriting or songs but, wait…sometimes making a good song better calls for a complete renovation. Actually, I guess you could apply this concept to almost anything…like say a kitchen. Click read more to see the video, and who knows, you might even write a song. – Rory

How nobody gets anywhere or does anything without the help of somebody else. In my case this is especially true about this website.