About Marc Alan Abrams

A B O U T M A R C A L A N A B R A M S

I have always had a passion for music from the time I was very young. I was born in the 50’s and remember the early roots of Rock n’ Roll very well. Early influences come from going to my Aunt and Uncle’s house who had a Wurlitzer Jukebox with 78 RPM records that included songs by people like Elvis Presley, (on the Sun Label), the Platters, Ricky Nelson, Hank Williams, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry, and many others from that era. It inspired me to want to learn how to play the guitar. When I was 13 years old, I received a guitar for a gift for my grammar school graduation. My parents were not real keen on Rock n’ Roll, (just like most parents back then), so they wouldn’t pay for me to get lessons. I bought a starter guitar book and became self taught. This was also at the time the Beatles were just becoming popular. The thing that struck me most about the Beatles was that, unlike most artists before them, they wrote their own songs. I started writing my own songs as early as 1964. As the 60’s and early 70’s progressed, I was especially influenced by singer-songwriters such as Paul Simon, Harry Chapin, Don McLean, Jim Croce, Carole King, James Taylor, as well as many others. My tastes ranged from Rock n’ Roll, Pop, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, and Traditional Country

Throughout the years, I continued to write songs and most of them were good, but not necessarily of professional caliper. It was just a hobby anyway. Most of the time, nobody except family members would ever even hear them. I also never even personally knew anyone else who wrote songs.

Fast forward to 2002, some big changes happened. The age of technology made it possible to record your own music on computer, save them to an MP3 file, and burn them to a Compact Disc. After doing some research on the Internet, I saw that an organization, the Songwriter’s Guild of America, was holding a seminar in Memphis TN that talked about songwriting in general and the business of songwriting. I decided to go and suddenly found myself in a room with over 100 other songwriters and were just like me. I was no longer the only songwriter I knew personally. That was in early 2003. I continued to participate in many different songwriting seminars and became involved locally in what became known as the North Fulton Songwriter’s Circle that was run by well known Singer/Songwriter, Jeff Talmadge. We would meet a couple of times a month. I met many other talented songwriters and through our meetings together and went from writing about a dozen songs in the last 30 years to writing 2-4 brand new songs every month. I learned more about proper song structure and techniques and the songs I was now writing suddenly became more professional.

In 2007, my song “I Could Have Been With Her Tonight” was cut by B. Thomas, a Norwegian Country Artist on his CD, “True Blue Cowboy” on the Redneck Record label. "Call 911" by Jimmy Hall (Wet Willy and Hank Williams Jr. Band) won an award for the best song in the blues/jazz category in the 2005 Songwriter's Guild Song Contest. I’ve also had songs recorded by such artists as Marc Alan Barnette (Rescued Me and Too Much Blood In My Alcohol Level), Dana McVicker (Singer w/Travis Tritt), Gary Pigg (Singer w/Neil Young), Kim Parent, Tim Buppert, and Butch Baker.

I now perform at many Open Mic venues in Atlanta as well as other cities and meet with different songwriting networking groups to continually strive to improve my songwriting craft.

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