Meet Logan Prescott | Songwriter & Producer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Logan Prescott and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Logan, what’s something about your industry that outsiders are probably unaware of?
A simple reality that many are unaware of outside of the songwriting scene is how many songs you write in a year’s time that people will never hear. There’s always this idea floating around in my head of how “artistic” it is to focus on quantity of music over obsessing with quality of music, and it’s really a constant argument that goes on with myself: is it compromising to my artistry if I choose to finish “so-so” songs and move on to the next? Or should I spend months and months (and sometimes years) sitting on ideas because they’re not quite the completion of the idea I wanted to convey? And you can tell the internal struggle there, but at least to me these days, the correct answer feels more and more like the first because you refine your skills as you create more art over time. And obviously the reason that is so hard is because artists have something to say, and many like myself come into this industry wanting to offer something different than the same repetitive thing you hear on the radio. But it really is a special artform to commit to ideas and move on to the next. This is something I’m always growing in.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I’m always asking myself what success looks like to me as a songwriter. I think you can sometimes move from one achievement to the next and forget to look back and see where you are now. I fall victim to that for sure, but overall I’m still pretty elated to be in the room with some of these people I’ve looked up to or followed for years and get to create music together. I don’t want to undermine the amount of time and work I’ve put in to refine my craft, but I’m still just kind of in shock when I create an idea that some of my heroes are applauding me for. It’s pretty surreal. And I think there are many more people who have been writing in a professional sense for a lot longer than me who would probably roll their eyes at me for being so smitten, but I’m just still kind of in the honeymoon phase of writing in Los Angeles. Comparison is really a terrible hindrance to moving forward. I’ve heard it said we tend to compare our “behind-the-scenes” with other people’s “highlight reels”, and I think we all feel that in a profound way with social media. For me, that feeling often comes from considering my age, when there are always high-schoolers who are hitting it big in songwriting by accident or whatever. And dwelling on those unicorn scenarios isn’t helpful to your own journey and realizing being an artist takes time and patience. There are many songwriters in this industry who didn’t see any kind of “big break” until they were in their 40’s or 50’s or 60’s.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I always love taking friends my favorite restaurants in North Dallas, like Mi Cocina or Pappasitos. I grew up in South Dallas and took for granted how great the Mexican food is in Texas, because when you leave the state it is a serious challenge finding anything comparable. You would think with as much time as I spend writing in places like Los Angeles there would be something that comes close, but I haven’t found it yet. So Dallas restaurants are always a major factor in any good travel plan. Then I think you have to go see a great local band play in Deep Ellum on a Friday night. Maybe this goes without saying to the audience of Voyage Dallas, but there is some great local music in Dallas that you have to see. Then to get the true Texas cowboy experience you have to drive over to the Fort Worth Stockyards and have some barbeque.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I think for many reasons my mom is the person who has had the biggest impact on my artistry. For a start, I wouldn’t have grown up with music in the house and piano lessons and The Beatles if it wasn’t for my mom, who is an incredible pianist herself. But I think your mom is always someone you want to impress, and as I grew up learning to play a variety of instruments and coming to her to show off a new song I wrote, she took me seriously. My mom is incredibly hard to impress, too, which makes her a great soundboard for ideas. You know she’s going to shoot you straight. And she’s very opiniated. She has a wide range of tastes, but she would love songs you would expect she would hate, and then the opposite. She was always unimpressed with 90% of popular music, and then she would love seemingly random songs by Britney Spears or Weezer or Third Eye Blind or Relient K (a childhood favorite of mine). I spent the first 20 years of my life trying to understand what it was that made my mom tick, and still to this day am always trying to figure it out. I always operate under the mantra that if my mom likes it, then it has to be really good. So for better or worse, I have a really high standard for the art that I create because of her. I’m always on the search for sing-able, accessible melodies while introducing musical elements that are unique and new.

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