Joe Barfield

My Influences in music:
Merle Haggard, Bucky Jones(staff writer-sony-retired), Kris Krisofferson, Hank Williams Sr, the list is long. The pain they protrayed through music lyrics is what impressed me with their writing styles.
The Beginning:
The first lyric i ever wrote was concidered (but not cut) by Nashville's ALV Music. I was unaware then that a writer has to fully develop. I met one of my cowriter's, Chris Sellmeyer, through George McClure.
Taxi.com:
Chris and I wrote a few songs together, and I was pitching them in Nashville, but was spinning my wheels. Chris found out about taxi.com. and we decided to join.
Kenny Rogers hit, "Buy You A Rose", was written by two taxi writers, that inpressed me. After many critiques from taxi, and sending the songs to the wrong listing, I developed fully.
Songs Being Done Now:
 "Two Wrongs Don't Make One Right", barfield(bmi)/sellmeyer(ascap), is the best in my opinion we've done. The story I tell is a true one, and I tried to display the feelings I had through the song.  "Caught Up In You"barfield(bmi)/sellmeyer(ascap), is the only ballad I ever wrote, a love story.  I wrote numberous lyrics that are being. cut Bluegrass
Goals:
To share my God given talent with the world, period.