The Wednesday Writers Room has a Thursday concert at the Palladium Side Door Cabaret. And even though all six members of the musical collective are individually busy live performers, this will be just the second time they’ve all been together, guitars at the ready, since the group was formed.
To explain: Singer/songwriter Dean Johanesen, who lives in Manatee County, does a lot of cross-country traveling, to music festivals, guitar pulls and workshops. Therefore, he was familiar with a fun exercise among writers wherein a small group is given a random “prompt,” and tasked with writing a song using it as a theme or in the lyrics.
“A prompt can be a word, a sentence or whatever,” says Johanesen, whose specialty is Texas Swing music. “We’ve had ‘monument,’ we’ve had ‘television,’ we’ve had ‘please lie to me,’ ‘coulda woulda shoulda,’ all these different prompts. I have always been too chicken to take part, in all honesty, because I feel like I write slow. I take my time. I kind of overthink things.”…