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Mark Simos

  • Asheville Music Publishing expands into bluegrass

    May 9, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Up until now, Asheville Music Publishing has concentrated most of their energy towards the Gospel music market, achieving great success for their writers in that realm. But now, in another sign of the vitality of bluegrass in the music business,

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  • Mark Simos talks songwriting

    October 21, 2014 | by David Morris

    During the IBMA's World of Bluegrass convention in late September, David Morris sat down with Berklee College of Music professor of songwriting, Mark Simos to discuss his new book, Songwriting Strategies: A 360 Degree Approach.   We'll have a complete review of

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  • The Story Behind the Song – Three Days in July (Part 2)

    July 3, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    On Monday, July 1, we posted part one of the story behind the song Three Days in July. In the course of compiling the feature Mark Simos, one of the co-writers, mentioned that he had spoken in some detail about the

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  • The Story Behind the Song – Three Days in July

    July 1, 2013 | by Richard Thompson

    On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg – July 1st, 2nd and 3rd 1863 – it is timely to look at the story behind Three Days in July, written by Mark Simos and Jon Weisberger. The song was recorded

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  • Songwriting analysis from Mark Simos

    March 23, 2011 | by John Lawless

    In the first part of our interview with Sierra Hull earlier this month, she discussed her current studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. One instructor she mentioned was Mark Simos, with whom she is studying lyric writing

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  • Bluegrass Out Of The Shadows at Berklee

    April 27, 2009 | by John Lawless

    Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school's embrace of country, bluegrass and Americana music as part of their instructional program. Written by Christopher John Treacy, and entitled Out Of The

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