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Two sisters combine a love of traditional folk and olde time country and create songs that sound far older than their young authors.
Sisters sharing the songwriting with The Lifers
Shows
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Revelation and Redemption with Sonja Seiler
Sonja talks about her arguably turbulent past with regard to the Canadian Art Song. The guys comment on her strong melodies, powerful imagery, and beautiful songs.
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The Scenic Sound: Taking it direct to the youngin’s
Tim Stead with his band The Scenic Sound talks about how melody drives his songs, and how repetition of the lyrics helps to get their message across to their young audience. Download 5 of their songs for free.
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Neel & Peter: Erotic Terror and the Power of Collaboration
Neel and Peter talk about their collaborative approach of jamming out songs, Neel on piano/keys and Peter with either pre-written or spontaneous lyrics. Neel’s funky and evocative keyboard parts and thoughtful arrangements combined with Peter’s compelling, intense lyrics and unique singing style has resulted in some eclectic music.
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Alon Rodovinsky
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I don’t need no stinkin’ band! T.C. Folkpunk – one man, one electric guitar – no band needed
Toronto’s TC Folkpunk talks about only needing his electric guitar and voice to play shows and gain fans! Really fun stuff.
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Chris Birkett: Finding and Freeing Your Creative Flow
Producer extraordinaire (Sinead O’Connor, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Alison Moyet, Dexys Midnight Runners, Talking Heads, The Pogues, Bob Geldof, Mel Brooks, Siedah Garrett, Steve Earle, Ali Amran, Alain Chamfort, René Lacaille, Talitha Mac Kenzie, etc) and songwriter guitarist Chris Birkett talks about his searching for the ins and outs of the creative process.
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Kash Molhotra
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How to find the emotional truth of your lyrics: Janice Ho
Our very own Janice Ho (and social media person) plays some great tunes and gives some great tips on collaborating remotely with different songwriters and how to map out a lyric so that you hit all the emotional bits.
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Two songwriters: Collaborating and flamico guitar with Ivan & Wilson
Guitar/ songwriting duo, Ivan & Wilson stopped by and we talked about collaborating and song structures. They performed A Day’s Tale, Live Another Day, and It’s All A Mystery live in the studio.
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Robert Graham
The well traveled Robert Graham talks about writing some pretty cool tunes!
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Anne Jablonicky
Anne came on the show and talked about her deep abiding love of country – in fact she believes she may be the love child of Tammy Wynette and some male country singer.
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Ana Morales
Ana Morales returns to Song Talk with some new songs. We talk about how she got that amazing acoustic guitar sound in her recordings, honesty in songwriting and keeping lyrics general enough for multiple interpretations.
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Loryn Taggart
The uber talented Loryn Taggart stops by with some great jazz songs!
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Michael Proudfoot
For the final show of 2014, singer songwriter Michael Proudfoot stops by and talks about writing meaningful music. Check out Michael’s video below.
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Liz Jaremyn
The very talented Liz Jaremyn stops by and we talk about structures and metaphors in songwriting.
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Holiday Songs: What makes a good one?
Bruce, Neel and Phil talk about their favourite holiday songs. They go over “Baby, it’s cold outside”, a wacky song by weird Al Yankovic, “Calling to say” by Serena Ryder and more.
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Neel Modi
Song Talk Radio co-host Neel Modi releases his first album, Counterfeit Lampshades, on the show. He presents three songs from the album, with an electronic industrial rock attitude.
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Braeden Mitchell
The guys are impressed with Braeden’s talent for performance and writing song where every detail is considered in his process. He also shares a surprise he saves for live performances. http://youtu.be/g7qwuaB4Mog
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Eric Sorenson
Song Talk Radio’s social media guru and occasional co-host Eric Sorenson preforms two new songs on guitar and a beautiful instrumental tribute to his grandparents.
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1-year Anniversary show
Bruce, Neel, and Phil celebrate their first year of Song Talk Radio with a freshly written tribute song to all the guests over the past year. They also feature and discuss five songs from the Songwriter’s Cafe Showcase concert at the Central Bar on Oct 26.
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Roger Beckett
Rogers brings many insights into songwriting from his time spent in Nashville, and performs three of his beautiful songs live in the Song Talk studio – including one written and performed on ukulele!
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Bruce, Eric and Neel
Eric presents a 80’s video game themed instrumental piece, Bruce shows off a twist on the classic love song, and Neel goes all industrial with a song about trains. You can view Neel’s document on developing his song here.
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Jessica Ireland
Jessica talks about what comes first; music or lyrics, and the first song she wrote at the age of eight. She performs all three songs live in the studio.