Conscious songwriting with Meris Gantt

Meris Gantt is an Indie Folk singer and songwriter based out of the North Carolina mountains.

Meris’ songwriting is honest and to the point; exploring life’s journeys with longing, regret and the silver linings that lie in between. Her songs tell tales of love, loss, and redemption that speak to the universal truths that bind us all together.

With “Forced Revival,” Gantt continues to guide her fans down the winding roads of their own lives, sparking a flame of hope, inspiration, and wonder.

Her current bands include “Handlebar Betty” and “Meris Gantt and Devin Lacey“

Meris shared the process behind her new song, Fine. Download the lyrics to follow along. She also treated us to a live performance over Zoom!

We talked about:

• Our Songwriting Challenge for write a song in a mode
• The At Home Songwriting meetup and their songwriting challenges
• How Meris does “morning pages” of thoughts every day and destroys them every week
• Bringing initial ideas into your consciousness by writing them down
• How writing a deeply personal song with some distance from the subject matter can be more emotional
• Saying it simply with the fewest words is harder to do than you think it is
• Changing the point-of-view in one section of your song
• Why you should write a horrible song, and when to know when it’s good (enough)