As a child he wasn’t allowed to play with transformers; as an adult he writes songs about them. That pretty much sums up James Struthers, the light-hearted, shaggy-haired 20 year old, in a nutshell.
Struthers picked up his first guitar six years ago (a Yamaha that suffered an accidental, untimely death at the tires of a pickup truck), but considers himself more of a singer than a guitarist, “I think both are equally important in songwriting, but I’m more confident in my vocal range than my guitar prowess.”
Unlike most singer-songwriters – and musicians in general – Struthers doesn’t always rely on personal experiences for inspiration during the songwriting process. “I draw all of my inspiration from the first line that I write in a song, and it usually comes from nowhere; it’s very detached from myself,” explains Struthers. “However, I have written a lot of songs that have been firmly attached to my experiences or my life, whether intentionally or after the fact.”
