Dave Frishberg discusses his different perspective

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Dave Frishberg discusses his songwriting style

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Dave Frishberg discusses his early songwriting days

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Q: “You have a completely different angle; when you write a love song, it’s not ‘moon, spoon, June” – it’s something off center slightly. Not to say it’s something crazy, it’s just that you seem to have a different way of looking at it. Does that go through your whole life?”

A: “I don't know if it goes through my life, but it goes through my songwriting. It's real hard to write a love song as you might suspect, you know, because it's been done so much and I find the most effective way for me to write is to find a little kind of a news peg for it and hang it on that and ... Not in the sense of news, but in the sense of finding a topic. And then I start with a title usually or a concept, but usually with a title.”