![]() I had brought a second bus for my tour while I was writing this album. Grammer: Yeah, I wrote a lot of the songs on the road. So I was just coming into the studio after realizing I’d been trying so hard to have some success, and then we finally had some.ĭK: You’ve just released your third album, The Good Parts. I had some success at that point, but I’d never had a triple platinum song. ![]() “Good To Be Alive” was after “Honey I’m Good” was hitting, and having struggled for so long. We hit it off-we wrote a topic that was super honest, and found a way to make it real catchy. Grammer: “Honey I’m Good” was song 101 for my second album. So that’s one of my life’s work-sometimes I do it well and other times I fail at it.ĭK: Two of your most popular songs are the hits “Honey I’m Good” and “Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah).” How did you write these songs? A lot of times when you write something happy, you come across as insincere. Or it’s not even the word cool…it’s making it sound believable. So I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get that to sound correct, because it’s hard to make happy sound cool. Grammer: It’s not intentional…you try to write what you know, and I seem to be inherently happy. So do you try to stay positive when you’re writing songs? Having a song that actually has some heat on it is what takes you from the street to being able to go out on tour and go bigger than that.ĭK: Some of your hit songs have a very positive outlook. Grammer: While I was street performing, I wrote a song called “Keep Your Head Up” (that became a hit single). Here’s the video of Andy Grammer’s hit single, “Fresh Eyes.” So it was really good to do this for four years, playing tons of music-my songs and other’s people’s songs-and having direct market research, where you see what’s working.ĭK: How did you go from being a street performer to signing a label deal? But then when I get to the hook, they leave. Every once in a while you have a song where you have a verse where people stop and listen. And then, you write your own songs and start playing them in front of people on the street, and most of them don’t make people stop. So you’re just playing other people’s songs, figuring out how your voice sounds on these songs.īy singing cover hits over and over again, you can’t help but pick up what’s working and what’s not working and why, and you learn more about songwriting through this process. my own songs weren’t good enough to grab anyone’s attention. This is because you’re playing cover songs, playing the best songs in the world for 10 hours a day. He discusses his new album The Good Parts, and he also tells how he wrote his hits “Honey I’m Good” and “Fresh Eyes.”ĭK: How did you get your start in the music business? I read that early on, you were a street performer for a few years.Īndy Grammer: Yeah, I started as a street performer at the Third Street Promenade (in Santa Monica, CA), which I think is a really great way to study songwriting. We are pleased to do this new Q&A interview with Andy Grammer. The tour starts in San Francisco on March 14, and continues with 24 shows throughout the U.S. With the release of his new album The Good Parts, Grammer is about to embark on a concert tour of North America. It was in 2011 that Grammer signed with S-Curve Records, and his self-titled debut album ( Andy Grammer) contained the chart singles “Keep Your Head Up” and “Fine By Me.” His follow-up album (called Magazines or Novels) was his major breakthrough and included the hits “Honey, I’m Good” and “Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah).” Interestingly, Grammer became a street performer for several years, playing cover songs and his original songs, busking at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. When he was 20, he moved back to Los Angeles. He learned to play guitar, piano and trumpet, and he began writing songs when he was 15. Grammer was born in Los Angeles, and then he grew up in the town of Chester, New York. The Good Parts features the hit single “Fresh Eyes” and Grammer’s new single, “Smoke Clears.” This album contains a wide range of songs, some that are fun and happy, and other songs that are more reflective and personal. Now in 2018, Grammer has just released his third album, The Good Parts (on S-Curve Records). His Top 10 pop hit “Honey, I’m Good” is a super-catchy song that millions of music fans were humming along to in 2015. ![]() Since releasing his debut album in 2011, singer/songwriter Andy Grammer has steadily built a large following with his string of hit singles, which have mostly been positive and upbeat songs.
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