#Black bird song series#
#Black bird song tv#

“Fight,” which has charted on Billboard‘s Adult Top 40 survey, was one of the earliest songs written for the album, and there’s a new video for the track that is building views on YouTube. While “Blackbird Song” is selling well, DeWyze also has a single in play from his Frames album. My career is getting to that next step, showing people who I am.” Breaking down those barriers has been so crucial. People don’t associate American Idol with songwriting. “I didn’t get into music or go on Idol for fame. “Writing is why I got into music in the first place,” he says. And his song “The Ride” was licensed by NASCAR.Īll this usage is validation for DeWyze’s original goal. The same network’s Reign went for another DeWyze tune, “Don’t Be Afraid.” ABC’s Nashville included “Fire Away” in an episode, featuring DeWyze’s own vocals. His single “Fight,” included on his latest album, Frames, was heard in an episode of The CW’s Hart of Dixie.

#Black bird song tv#

The Walking Dead is just the latest TV placement for a DeWyze song. The track was featured on The Walking Dead - AMC Original Soundtrack, Vol. “I love that show and everything about it.”Īfter being played on the series, “Blackbird Song” became available on digital platforms and has sold 31,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. “It was so amazing to be involved with such a creative group of people,” DeWyze says of The Walking Dead production staff. DeWyze’s song was played at the beginning of the episode as well as the end, for a total of about four minutes of airtime. When a song is placed in a series, it might be heard for anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two at the most. If I look at my Twitter feed right now, the last tweet is about that song.” “People are still talking to me about it. “I’ve never seen that many people tweet so quickly about a song,” he says. As frustrating as that was for DeWyze, it did result in his Twitter feed blowing up as soon as “Blackbird Song” was heard on The Walking Dead. We’ll get back to you.’ ” A week later, DeWyze was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement about the episode that would include his “Blackbird Song.” That legal paper meant he couldn’t post any news about his song on social media until the episode aired. A couple of days went by and their response was, ‘We love it. He knows the right avenues to take, and he asked the show to check out the song. “Fred said, ‘Let’s go,’ and he’s very good at what he does.

#Black bird song series#

Jasper gave the Idol winner a reality check, telling him that The Walking Dead was “a number one show.” DeWyze insisted that the song go to the series anyway. The next step was for DeWyze to have a conversation with Fred Jasper, vice president TV/film licensing at the Welk Music Group. STORY: ‘American Idol’ on the Charts: Lee DeWyze Brings the ‘Fight’ to Adult Top 40 We could have made it sound clean and slick, but that’s not what the song is about.” “I picked the mics and changed the levels. “My manager, Brett Radin, said we needed to record it.”ĭeWyze went into the studio with Cartwright and an engineer to cut “Blackbird Song” in two hours, taking on the role of producer.

Then my whole band joined in, and I wasn’t feeling it.” DeWyze asked everyone except Cartwright to stop playing.

He told me to keep playing, and then he started doing his fiddle and violin thing, and I thought it was amazing. “My violin player, Paul Cartwright, had never heard the song. But I was really adamant about getting this one out there.” During a rehearsal for a show in Nashville, DeWyze started playing the song for his band. I thought it could end up in the abyss with all of the other music I’ve never released. “I had no idea if the song would go into the show. I definitely relate to a Daryl type.” As much as DeWyze wanted to have a song placed in The Walking Dead, he also wanted to write a song that people who didn’t watch the series would enjoy. “As a viewer, Daryl, Glenn and Hershel are the three I relate to the most. He was mainly inspired by three of the series’ characters. PHOTOS: ‘ American Idol’ Season 13: Meet the Top 10 SingersĭeWyze wrote the song in his living room and completed it over two evenings. My wife said, ‘Are you writing that for The Walking Dead?’ I said yes, and she asked, ‘Do they know that?’ I laughed. “I said out loud, ‘I want a song in the show.’ I grabbed my guitar and started writing. A lot of it was this folkie kind of underground, darker music and I was really drawn to it.”Īfter a few seasons, DeWyze had an idea to write a song for the series. It wasn’t just the drama that interested DeWyze.