Richard W. Chapman
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Richard W. Chapman

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The best kept secret in music

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Still working on that hot first release.

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I've been writing for as long as I can remember, but my short attention span tends to hinder my ability to see ideas through to completion. My life is littered with outlines, false starts and forgotten stories abandoned as passion waned.

However, my pen never dried and the words started instinctively fitting into a form. Songwriting found me. And while my musical ability is depressingly minimal, the handful of pages nervously handed over to a musician-friend produced results exciting enough to make me consider the possibility that my words could someday be heard.

Early attempts brimming with cliché broken-heart laments led to deeper introspection, which in turn led to the search for something real. Something other than detachment that connects all of these apathetic faces passing me on the street.

I have yet to find answers, but I feel the words are leading the way. If something I write can touch even one person, it's a start. A connection. And from there, anything is possible.

My musical hero is the late Elliott Smith whose music and words touched my soul when I had disconnected myself from the world and feared feeling anything. He showed me the beauty of the world despite (or perhaps because of) the ugliness around me. Like a flower from a flame. His memory and music inspires me everyday.