Carving It Out: Backstory and Economy in Songwriting

A couple of years ago I had a chat with Anthonie Tonnon  -it was in the lead up to his then-new album, his first solo record and we got to talking about economy in songwriting, the ideas around narrative, songs that seem to be stuffed with back-story, but done in a subtle, stirring way. There are certain songs where you are aware of more that's happened…