Welcome to my interviews!
In addition to writing and singing songs, I never play a song without talking about it, too — sometimes a little before and sometimes a little more after and sometimes so much that I forget to sing the song altogether. But around the campfire, it’s really the backstory that brings the song to life.
Hope you enjoy the insights the interviews provide.
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Website Tour
Join singer/songwriter Bobby Angel …
On a self-guided tour of his website.
Bobby Angel tours his website
The major take-home point is this: The website is super easy to navigate. My albums, songs, interview, campfire concerts, demos and more are easy to find. Better yet, you can even buy a Bobby Angel T-Shirt. The thing about Bobby Angel, I’m about as good a webmaster as I am a singer songwriter. Or in other words, I’m learning. What I love about the website? It made me think long and hard about how to structure it and the message I wanted to get across. Most of all I wanted it a tool where Angelheads could both find what they needed (songs, albums, interviews) — better known as “discoverability” — but also get lost. Early on and often, the website helped inform my art. Case in point is that whenever I write a song I follow up within the week with an interview on the song. The other great thing about the website: It gives me a reason to be a finisher. Without a place to put a song, to memorialize it for all time, it’s easy to use that for an excuse of never getting it done. Not for Bobby Angel! Yes, many first drafts never see the light of day. But if I make it to the second draft, the third, seventh, thirteenth, whatever it takes, are close behind, it soon thereafter finding a spot on my website.
I‘ve always said: If nobody else uses my website other than me, it’s a success. But Big Confession, too: Thank God for all you Angelheads out there!
P.S. Don’t forget to visit my store (T-Shirts next day delivery).
Titanic dethroned!
Bobby Angel talks "The Lusitania"
Behind every great song …
Is the after-song interview.
Bobby angel explains why in this in-depth interview.
No song delves deeper into my heart than the Lusitania. Why? Maybe because my grandfather could have easily served in the war. He didn’t. But he was almost of the age that he could have if he were only born a year or two before. To me, the song also challenges the myth of the Titanic. It also begs the question, will Celine Dion and I ever collaborate. All I can say is that it would be a great, maybe the greatest, highlight of my career. Celine – if you’re listening – I already have the campfire venue picked out. Or alternatively, we could meet up in Las Vegas too at one of your shows. I’m good either way.
Interview at Oasis
If I had to pick one person …
To tell the story of Oasis VC:
Listen to the song
It would be Ranger Rudi. Listen to the interview to find out why.
Ruins and reservoir
Bobby Angel talks Gunpowder River
How long does it take …
To understand a river?
Answer: Probably a hundred hikes.
Art of the Tony Doctrine
And why it's the new Art of War
There’s some people …
You just want them to write everything down.
The problem? Tony was more a man of action than long-winded with his words.
Smash Interview
What makes a one-hit wonder?
It’s amazing how one song …
Can generate so much discussion.
Typical of Bobby Angel, his interviews are longer than the songs.
Vintage Throwback
Why some songs age well
I’m not saying this is my best song …
But it has withstood the test of time.
The reason?
Hope to despair
The ballad's backstory
When does one’s biggest regret …
Transform into their only hope?
Bobby Angel explores that and more in his new song.
About Her and There
The art of the medley
Life’s biggest challenge
is working outside your genre.
It’s also the biggest reward.
That’s where this medley comes in.
Demolished
Interview about Tear Down
So the saying goes:
You can’t take it with you.
But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to leave a little behind.
About Pretend
Fun to see the lake overflow into the Glades
For as long as this song is …
I wrote it in a day.
As for what it chronicles, it took about two centuries to unfold
Stopping midstream
Usually when you’re in the middle of a roaring river …
The imperative is to get across.
Or is the crossing the best part?
Anniversary explained
Bobby Angel explains "Anniversary Song"
The obvious question is …
Anniversary of what?
Maybe it’s a relationship, or maybe it’s something else.
About Preserved
What was gained and what was lost
Bobby Angel gives the inside scoop …
on the anchor (i.e. final) song to The Green Album.
He didn’t know he had an album until he wrote this song, and then everything clicked.