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Song Talk Radio

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The weekly radio show / podcast where songwriters share the musical tools, tips and techniques that help us all write better songs.

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Joined November 2013
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The latest shows from Song Talk Radio for 06/30/2023 - eepurl.com/iuCtyE
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Home Recording Series: Mixing and Mastering Tips #recording #production #tips #podcast #talkradio #SSL #mastering #mixing songtalk.ca/shows/home-recor…

Home Recording Series: Mixing and Mastering Tips

For our ongoing series of episodes helping you with your home recording studios, our audio engineer from the before times, Don Thompson, joined us to talk about

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Revisiting a song ten years later with Neel Modi #songwriting #progressiverock @jacobmoonmusic #timesignature #guitar #lyrics #metaphor #podcast #talkradio songtalk.ca/shows/revisiting…
Revisiting a song ten years later with Neel Modi

Revisiting a song ten years later with Neel Modi

On this special episode, our very own Neel Modi shared his process of revisiting a song he first wrote over 10 years ago. We were privileged and happy to have s

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Pete Eastmure: Writing with Images #songwriting #imagery #literary #folk #Americana #CanCon #guitar #production #lyrics #chords #RobinHood songtalk.ca/shows/pete-eastm…
Pete Eastmure: Writing with Images

Pete Eastmure: Writing with Images

Pete Eastmure is diving deeper into the Americana/Canadiana genre with his new album “Devil’s Taxi”. The album was created during the “Shutdown” and i

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Tina Ross #newyorkmusic #songwriting #lyrics #artist #17thcentury #Artemesia #guitar #piano #folk #musicaltheatre #guitartuning #podcast #talkradio songtalk.ca/shows/tina-ross/
Bringing a 17th Century artist to life with Tina Ross

Bringing a 17th Century artist to life with Tina Ross

Tina Ross is a New York based Singer Songwriter making up for lost time. On her second act, she just released her debut album, “While I’m Here”. Her vocal

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Women of the 2000s Draft Show #draftshow #podcast #talkradio #womensingers #2000s #millenium #nostalgia #songwriting #melody #lyrics #chords #rhymes #songstructure #chorus songtalk.ca/shows/women-of-t…

Women of the 2000s Draft Show

For our first draft game show since the "before times" we flashed back to the 2000s for our favourite songs with female artists. We invited Susan Cattaneo (chec

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Authentic storytelling in song with Jenny Mallard #music #musicNL #eastcoastmusic #cancon #podcast #talkradio #lyrics #melody #rhyme #poetry songtalk.ca/shows/authentic-…

Authentic storytelling in song with Jenny Mallard

Canadian Country/Folk - Pop artist Jenny Mallard is a celebrated musician and storyteller who is known for her authentic lyrics and impactful storytelling. Fres

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Writing a traditional style song in modern times with Gravely James #songwriting #guitar #lyrics #rhymes #band #tradionalmusic #podcast #talkradio #music #Cancon songtalk.ca/shows/writing-a-…

Writing a traditional style song in modern times with Gravely James

Gravely James, a.k.a Chris Madronich,  is an Americana and Folk singer-songwriter based in Niagara, ON. Growing up in Port Colborne, ON, Madronich spent a deca

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Poetry meets songwriting with CALICO #songwriting #lyrics #band #pandemic #guitar #podcast #talkradio songtalk.ca/shows/poetry-mee…
Poetry meets songwriting with CALICO

Poetry meets songwriting with CALICO

CALICO, an independent Folk/Americana band based in British Columbia, formed at the start of the pandemic by creatively negotiating the space between personal d

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Suburban Rock n' Roll with Fake Magic #songwriting #rock #CanCon #guitar #lyrics #podcast #talkradio @Fake__Magic songtalk.ca/shows/suburban-r…

Suburban Rock n’ Roll with Fake Magic

Greg Markham and Bryan Paccagnella grew up in the suburbs of Richmond Hill playing a lot of basement rock. In 2005 they moved to Toronto to attend Humber Col

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At Home #Songwriting #Challenge #meetup #creative #musician #lyrics #rhymes #metaphor #chords #melody #rhythm #storytelling songtalk.ca/news/at-home-son…

At Home Songwriting Challenge

Our good friend Chad Shank is hosting a month-long songwriting challenge (OK, two weeks now) at his At Home Songwriting meetup group for March 2023. Check out t

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Exploring Dorian and Lydian Modes #songwriting #musictheory #piano #guitar #podcast #talkradio @tearsforfears @fleetwoodmac songtalk.ca/shows/exploring-…

Exploring Dorian and Lydian Modes

Our 2023 songwriting challenge is to write a song using an unusual mode, or a mode you don't normally use. For our first episode on this subject, composer and s

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Co-writing Nashville style with Sarah Peterson #songwriting #podcast #talkradio #femalesinger #singersongwriter #metaphor #lyrics #rhymes #meetup songtalk.ca/shows/co-writing…

Co-writing Nashville style with Sarah Peterson

Sarah Peterson is a Minnesota based songwriter and artist carving out her own unique space in the singer songwriter world. Her love of words has pulled her into

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Susan Cattaneo and two of her favourite songs #songwriting #folkmusic #classicsongs #opinion #chorus #bridge #lyrics #melody #metaphor #talkradio #podcast @susancattaneo @jonimitchell @springsteen songtalk.ca/shows/susan-catt…

Susan Cattaneo and two of her favourite songs

Award-winning singer-songwriter and music educator Susan Cattaneo joined us to talk about two of her favourite songs and why they're so great. Sherry Jacoby fil

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Writing in a rock band with Billy Lunn of The Subways #songwriting #lyrics #rockmusic #UKmusic #ontour #producing #podcast #talkradio @thesubways songtalk.ca/shows/writing-in…

Writing in a rock band with Billy Lunn of The Subways

Billy Lunn is the singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer of the UK-based rock band The Subways. The Subways released their debut album Young for Eternity i

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Writing a long song with Civil Wray #songwriting #CanCon #singer-songwriter #indiemusic #podcast #talkradio #Junos #lyrics #melody #piano songtalk.ca/shows/writing-a-…

Writing a long song with Civil Wray

Sparkle. It’s exactly what Civil Wray does on her brand-new single, appropriately entitled “Sparkle”.  Civil Wray, the nom de plume of Toronto sin

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McMaster LIVELab Concert Research Study #musicandscience #research #performance @DanaSwarbrick @AlexWhorms @musicandthemind #podcast #talkradio songtalk.ca/shows/mcmaster-l…
McMaster LIVELab Concert Research Study

McMaster LIVELab Concert Research Study

Singer-songwriter Alex Whorms and doctoral researcher Dana Swarbrick met while attending McMaster University. Last year, they collaborated to produce a concert

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White-collar folk with Jason Pilling #songwriting #folkmusic #CanCon #guitar #acoustic #singersongwriter #homerecording #podcast #talkradio @jasonhpilling songtalk.ca/shows/white-coll…

White-collar folk with Jason Pilling

Jason Pilling is a singer-songwriter who draws lyrical content from a lifetime of being a regular nice-guy with a math degree, a nice little nuclear family, and

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Happy New Year and some random stuff #JeffBeck @terryhall_ @itspetergabriel #songwriting #homerecording #plugins #musicandmath songtalk.ca/shows/happy-new-…

Happy New Year and some random stuff

For our first episode of 2023, Phil and Neel hung out to talk about a bunch of things on our minds. We talked about: Our upcoming songwriting challenge

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Writing to the big picture with Amanda Sum #songwriting #podcast #talkradio #lyrics #imagery #guitar #piano #band #asiancanadian #CanCon #allgirlband songtalk.ca/shows/writing-to…

Writing to the big picture with Amanda Sum

Canadian artist Amanda Sum has recently released her brand-new debut album “New Age Attitudes” and was quickly featured as one of Exclaim! Magazine's picks

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