Songwriting

george monbiot’s book about re-wilding was inspiring, later pitched songs based on those ideas for an Ontario Arts Council songwriting grant. won’t get it but at the same time did […]

It is a chicken and egg sorta deal, the melody or the voice. Sometimes I feel like Girl From Ipanema is a drug and I’m on it.

The best moment was everyone singing the background response “if I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars” and then someone […]

I played accordion on If I Had A Million Dollars. It was a fun session and there were a bunch of us singing background vocals. It is amusing when I’m […]

But when he’s gone me and those lonely blues collide, the bed’s too big the frying pan’s too wide He hangs out down on Alvarado street by the Pioneer Chicken […]

Everybody’s mind contains a drunk heckler sitting in the front row. The stakes are heightened when one starts considering how inner thought can foil the whole thing like juggling one […]

At a party, young award winning musician is holding court and explaining why Bob Dylan is the worst artist in the world, “He can’t sing, he’s musically horrible” yada yada. […]

There is a great moment in John Lennon’s song Revolution, the slower version, where he sings “but when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me […]

Watched music videos of artists I never saw as young people which led to viewing Lowell George who I never got into, which led to discovering he played on Harry […]