I wince every time someone tells me about their “bramble patch.” For some, those two words might evoke nostalgic, pastoral notions. For me, they call to mind thrashing through a mess of thorny canes ...

Finding the truth about songwriting is like the bramble patch. There’s no one answer. But there is a whole lot of wisdom about it in the aggregate of thoughts on songwriting and the creative process ...

TOWNES VAN ZANDT: The subconscious must be writing songs all the time. I’ve heard a lot of songwriters express the same feeling, that the song came from elsewhere. It came through me. The song was ...

For several years now in my wooded fen I've been favouring a bramble patch by clipping out all competitors and creating space for the outlying shoots. It has slowly expanded, but this year it has ...

This undated photo shows everbearing yellow raspberry plants in New Paltz, NY. Gardeners can get better raspberries and blackberries by training and pruning their bushes — or brambles. (Lee Reich via ...