Glen Ballard wrote his first song when he was 4. “I Wish I Was a Buzzard” was a ditty about his longing to fly. “I was a really bad music student, I just wanted to write songs, and it’s been this disease that I have,” Ballard tells American Songwriter. “Without learning music, I could play […]
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