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For the Sake of the Song with Randy Uberig

Sean — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:01:29 +0000

Randy Uberig and I run into each other several times a year at various festivals and musical events. We sat down to record a podcast at our annual winter songwriter’s getaway. Enjoy

Songs:

The Words (© Randy Uberig)

Gone, Gone, Gone (© Randy Uberig)

Won’t Be Long Till I’ll Be Home Again (© Randy Uberig)

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For the Sake of the Song with Guest Michelle Rumball

Sean — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:09:43 +0000

Michelle Rumball has been a fixture of the Toronto Music scene for almost 20 years. In the early 90s she was lead singer for folk-rock legends, The Grevious Angels. She now writes and performs as a solo singer-songwriter, as a member of the new trio Beauty Saloon, and in a number of bands around Toronto. I caught up to her at the wonderful Rockin’ The Cradle series of concerts promoted by my sister as a venue for people who love music with babies and young children.

Songs:

Delia (© Michelle Rumball and Pat Temple)

Train Too Long (© Michelle Rumball)

Find Michelle Rumball on Myspace.

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For the Sake of the Song with Taylor Davison

Sean — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:54:36 +0000

Taylor Davison is a high school student and songwriter. We had a chat on the Sunday morning of our our songwriting group’s winter getaway weekend. My apologies if I sound tired. It was a music filled weekend.

Songs:

I’ll Be There (© Taylor Davison)

Who are you to say? (© Taylor Davison)

A Little Piece of Paradise (© Sean McGaughey)

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For the Sake of the Song with Ed Winacott

Sean — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:44:19 +0000

Ed Winacott is a member of my songwriting group and a heck of a nice guy. I caught up with him at our songwriting group’s winter getaway weekend.

Songs:

The River Road (©Ed Winacott)

Any Mother’s Son (©Ed Winacott)

Young Again (©Ed Winacott)

Ed and I both play custom acoustic guitars built by Ron Belanger.

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For the Sake of the Song with Caroline Brooks

Sean — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:13:22 +0000

Caroline Brooks is a singer-songwriter in demand. She performs solo, as a member of the Brooks Family, in Scott Cooper’s band and as a member of the Good Lovelies. She has twice come to my school as a mentor to my songwriting club courtesy of Stellula Music in the Schools. I caught up with her in November at the Rye Cafe. My apologies for the sound quality on this one.

Songs:

The Lumberjack (© Caroline Brooks)

Down, Down, Down (© Caroline Brooks)

Sleepwalking (© Kerri Ough)

Links:

Caroline Brooks on Myspace

the Good Lovelies

The Good Lovelies Blog

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For the Sake of the Song Episode 100 with Don Bray

Sean — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:21:10 +0000

I’ve known Don Bray for about 17 years. We met at an open stage, and I was struck by his insightful lyrics and virtuoso musicianship from the first time I heard him. He was one of the first people I wanted to interview for my podcast but it took a couple years for us to connect. It was worth the wait. I think it’s fitting that he is my guest for episode 100.

We sat down in a quiet room during our songwriting group’s annual winter getaway weekend. He was accompanied on vocals, Cello, and title reminders by Alyssa Wright. Don and Alyssa are both solo performers but they have also released their first CD as The Brights: Live, Love, Dream.

Songs:

Lonely No More (© Don Bray)

A Good Day (© Don Bray)

These Miles (© Don Bray)

Beds and Boots (© S. McGaughey)

Links

Don Bray

Alyssa Wright

The Brights

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Join us for a live recording celebrating 100 Episodes of For the Sake of the Song on Friday June 5, 2009 at 7pm EDT at the Rye Cafe in Midland, Ontario. My guests for the evening will be Marlon Gibbons, Jennifer Ives and Ken Allen. We will be recording one or two live episodes of For the Sake of the Song followed by musical performances by each of us. We will also be streaming the event live over ustream. Stay tuned to ductapeguy.net for more details. There is no cover charge for this event, but we will be accepting donations for Stellula Music in the Schools.

For the Sake of the Song with guest Jody Gnant

Sean — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:01:38 +0000

Last summer, I attended Podcamp Boston. While Zina (from the Secrets of Battlestar Galactica Podcast) and I were walking in downtown Boston heading for lunch, we saw a beautiful young lady walking down the street talking into laptop held in front of her. It turned out that she streams her whole life on the Internet. Later at podcamp, I ran into her again and introduced myself. She is Jody Gnant and she has an amazing story to tell about indie marketing over the net. She actually traded one year’s rent on her house in Phoenix to Kyle MacDonald from one red paperclip for studio time to complete her album. We talked at the end of a long day at Podcamp Boston about songwriting, new media, and took questions from her live streaming audience. Check out her music and lifecast at jodygnant.com.

Songs:

From the Middle (© Jody Gnant)

Me Who Changed (© Jody Gnant)

Great Day (© Jody Gnant)

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For the Sake of The Song is fast approaching its 100th episode. Join us for a live recording celebrating this milestone on Friday June 5, 2009 at 7pm EDT at the Rye Cafe in Midland, Ontario. My guests for the evening will be Marlon Gibbons, Jennifer Ives and Ken Allen. We will be recording one or two live episodes of For the Sake of the Song followed by musical performances by each of us. We will also be streaming the event live over ustream. Stay tuned to ductapeguy.net for more details. There is no cover charge for this event, but we will be accepting donations for Stellula Music in the Schools.

FTSOTS Special: Podcamp London Talk– Free is Good

Sean — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:20:57 +0000

Podcamp London was held on April 28, 2009. It was a wonderful gathering of podcasting, tech and social media enthusiasts from throughout central Ontario. Kudos go to Bill, Titus, Will and all the organizers of the event.

John Meadows of the On the Log podcast and I presented a session at Podcamp London entitled: Free is Good about free and open source audio production and podcasting tools. Here are the audio and the slides of that session. (Click on the slide to advance)

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For the Sake of the Song 95: 2nd Podversary

Sean — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:48:08 +0000

I went and forgot my second podcasting anniversary. On March 12, 2007, I released Episode 01- For the Sake of the Song- The Podcast. In the past two years I have interviewed many songwriters, written a few songs, and recorded a kajillion concerts and special events. This morning, my wife and I went through the archives of ductapeguy.net and counted 84 audio podcast episodes of For the Sake of the Song and 11 video episodes. That makes this special video release episode 95. I also have a show completed with Sean Peever for release on March 30, and I have about 7 episodes that I need to edit. Reaching the 100th episode has been quite a goal for me and I can see it from here.

While I was compiling stats, I revisited my post, Milestones, from April 22, 2008 where I totaled up all my podcast episodes. At the time I had produced over 236 audio programs.

In the last year, I have released 45 Episodes of For the Sake of the Song, for a total of 95. I also produced 51 Episodes of Catholic Roundup podcast under 3 show names: A Catholic Canadian, The Catholic New Media Roundup and now Catholic Roundup. We produced 4 new episodes of the Podcamp Toronto Podcast this winter for a total of 18 episodes. I also released 4 special reports about Podcamp Boston 2 in 2007. My recording of my brother in law, Drew Beatty’s podcast novel, White Trash Land has 23 sections. Drew is currently podcasting his second novel Lost Gods. From 2006-2008, I hosted about 20 episodes of the Librivox Community Podcast. I have also completed 115 sections of public domain books and poetry for Librivox. I have 21 videos up on my youtube page. There are probably a couple special one-off projects with groups like Twisted pines that I’m overlooking as well. I also regularly record audio feedback for other podcasts and record concerts and demos for myself and others but have no accurate count of those, so I’m only counting audio and video I’ve released on the net.

100 audio and video programs that I have produced in the last 11 months for a total of 336 finished audio and video programs.

(give or take a few)

This month also marks the 2nd anniversary of RussTV, my good friend Russ Clayton’s YouTube program for children. I have been on his show several times over the past two years. I was on RussTV: Episode 4- Guiters and Banjers and Episode 9: Down By The Little Lake.

This week, we recorded 2 more public domain songs for Russ TV: Wild Mountain Thyme and Teddy Bear’s Picnic. Enjoy.

For the Sake of the Song with guest Jory Nash

Sean — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:34:14 +0000

For the past 10 years, Jory Nash has been playing house concerts, folk clubs, festivals, and summer camps. I caught up to him at the Mariposa Folk Festival after a long day of workshops and great music. We were both in a bit of a pensive and reflective mood. Jory has 5 CDs to his credit. He is an insightful songwriter and a dynamic performer. For this episode, Jory and I played a lovely handmade guitar built by Ron Belanger. After the festival was over, I ended up buying one of Ron’s guitars.

Songs:

God Don’t Know Me Anymore(© Jory Nash)

Trouble Comes and Goes (© Jory Nash)

Alone Without a Song(© Sean McGaughey)

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Podcast Special: My New Guitar

Sean — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:53:49 +0000

Please allow me a little self indulgence here. (Who am I kidding– podcasting is a self-indulgent activity). Last week I met with my friend Ron Belanger at theGood Vibes Coffee House to pick up my new Ron Belanger handmade guitar. Here is a recording of my first set of my own songs with my new guitar. Enjoy.

For the Sake of the Song with Artemis Chartier and Dale Russell

Sean — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:50:32 +0000

Chartier and Dale Russell are the founders of the School Alliance for Student Songwriters (SASS), a group which facilitates songwriting clubs in schools and arranges songwriting showcases and contests for students in the Durham County region of Ontario and in British Columbia.

I met them in September at the launch party/brainstorming session for the Stellula Songwriting in the Schools initiative here in Simcoe County. Artemis Chartier is a high school teacher and singer-songwriter. Dale Russell was a guitar player with the Guess Who for 17 years in the 80′s and 90s. They are lovely people and wonderful songwriters. Be sure to check out the SASS website to see the wonderful things they are doing with enabling young people to tell their stories through song.

Songs:

Walked on Air (© Artemis Chartier)

The Place Where We Come From (© Dale Russell and Max Smith)

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For the Sake of the Song Special: Some of my Favorite Songwriting Resources

Sean — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:04:40 +0000

This show I have no guest. Instead I’m looking back on past episodes, forward to future shows, and I play the newest song that I’ve written. I was inspired to write after over a year by Stevie Z’s monthly songwriting challenge at badlybent.ca.

The August challenge was

GENRE – Country
TOPIC - Summer
WORD/PHRASE – Bridge

Songwriting Clubs in Schools:
www.stellulamusic.com
Bringing Music to the children and youth of Simcoe County.
Student Songwriting Clubs
Spring Week of Music in Schools
Spring Community Concert

Artemis Chartier and Dale Russell are the founders of the School Alliance for Student Songwriters (SASS), a group which facilitates songwriting clubs in schools and arranges songwriting showcases and contests for students in the Durham County region of Ontario and in British Columbia. Dale and Artemis are my guests on the next episode of For the Sake of the Song.

Song: Artemis Chartier and Dale Russell: Do it for the Love (©Dale Russell)

Songwriting Resources

Tom Slatter is a London, UK based songwriter and podcaster. He is half of the acoustic pop duo We’ll Write and produces the wonderful Songwright blog and podcast where he explores music theory to get inside the structure and process of crafting a song. He has recently released a free Ebook of Songwriting Worksheets for the Songwriting Guitarist as an incentive for people to sign up for his mailing list. In it, he includes, For the Sake of the Song on a list of online songwriting resources. Check out my feature interview with Tom: For the Sake of the Song with Tom Slatter

The Essential Secrets of Songwriting Blog

Bryan Murdaugh

followthatsong is a recently launched blog by my friend Paul Court, the founder of BADASS– The Barrie and District Association for Singer-Songwriters. I interviewed Paul about a year ago on For the Sake of the Song, while he was in the process of writing his newly released CD, Blood and Fire: The Donelley Project. For the Sake of the Song with guest Paul Court

Song: The Ballad of Billy Farrell from Blood and Fire: The Donnelly Project (©paul court)

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For the Sake of the Song with The Wild Turkey Outfit

Sean — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:30:35 +0000

On the afternoon of May 15, the Wild Turkey Outfit performed at my school for 300+ appreciative children and their teachers. They wowed the children with their down-home charm and their tight blugrass and western harmonies.

Afterwards, I was also able to interview them for For the Sake of the Song.

Songs:

The Polecat Holler (© Wild Turkey Outfit)

Asking for Trouble (© Wild Turkey Outfit)

Hurleyville Taxi (© Wild Turkey Outfit)

Name Dropping (links)

The Wild Turkey Outfit

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For the Sake of the Song with Washboard Hank.

Sean — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:10:51 +0000

Earlier this year, I interviewed Washboard Hank, about his memories of Willie P. Bennett.

I was able to interview Hank at the Twisted Pines Music in Movies festival about his own music and songwriting. Washboard Hank is a Canadian folk music institution. He has released several CDs of quirky and humorous music, a Children’s CD and played for many years in Fred Eaglesmith’s band. Our interview delved into the meat of songwriting but also features some of his more adult oriented material so I’m putting an Itunes explicit label on this episode.

Songs:

I’m Just a Lonesome Garbage Truck (© Washboard Hank)

The Empties in the Trunk go Clink, Clank, Clunk (© Washboard Hank)

I’m So Glad I Got My Gentle Vasectomy (© Washboard Hank)

Thump, Thump (© Washboard Hank)

Also for your enjoyment, check out these videos of Washboard Hank at the Twisted Pines Festival:

I Love You Queen Elizabeth (© Washboard Hank)

Washboard Boogie (© Washboard Hank)

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For the Sake of the Song with James Gordon

Sean — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:15:37 +0000

James Gordon has been a fixture of the Canadian folk music scene for over 25 years. He was a founding member of Tamarack, and played with them for 22 years before going solo about 10 years ago. He has written hometown songs and humorous songs for CBC radio, and has written a number of musical plays. I interviewed James at the Mariposa Folk Festival on the deck of his hand-made houseboat, the Eramosa Belle. For this episode, James and I both played a lovely handmade guitar built by Ron Belanger. You can find out how to purchase any of James’ 40 CDs at http://jamesgordon.ca.

Songs:

Farther Along the Road (© James Gordon)

The Secret of Rock and Roll (© James Gordon)

Pawpine (© James Gordon)

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For the Sake of the Song with Ashley Condon

Sean — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:09:03 +0000

Once a month, George Scott and Jason Cliche host a Songwriter’s Showcase at the beautiful Gibson Centre in Alliston, Ontario. I drove the family down on March 2 for a wonderful afternoon of original music featuring Ashley Condon and Douglas John Cameron. I sat down with Ashley for an interview after the show. Ashley Condon was raised in PEI and now lives in Guelph, Ontario. This episode is a little unusual because I use live footage from the concert, interspersed with our interview. I also hope to feature Douglas John Cameron on an upcoming episode.

Songs:

Let it Go– (© Ashley Condon)

Everything (© Ashley Condon)

When I’m With You (© Ashley Condon)

Name Dropping (links)

Ashley Condon

Douglas John Cameron

Songwriter’s Showcase

(photo by Sarah McGaughey)

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Scott Cooper at Twisted Pines

Sean — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:11:47 +0000

Scott Cooper is another former Midland resident who now lives in Toronto. Last fall he released his new CD, Tiny Increments. I featured him in a For the Sake of the Song Interview a few months ago.

Here is Scott Cooper singing The Summer Song, accompanied by Mike Yates on cello at the Twisted Pines Festival on May 17.

Here is Don’t Turn Around

For the Sake of the Song with Ben Sures

Sean — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:35:07 +0000

Ben Sures is a veteran singer songwriter with 4 CDs to his credit. His song, Any Precious Girl won the John Lennon Songwriting competition and placed second in the International songwriting competition His new album, ‘Field Guide to Loneliness was released at the end of February. In February, we had Ben over for a house concert. We recorded the interview just prior to dinner before the concert. Sorry for the background noises, but people were beginning to arrive for dinner and the concert.

Songs:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)
Any Precious Girl (© Ben Sures)

If I had a Ray Gun ( © Ben Sures)

2 Vignettes ( © Ben Sures)

The Last Full Blood From Serpant River (in progress) ( © Ben Sures)

Holes ( © Ben Sures)

Name Dropping

Ben Sures Official Webpage. Check here for CD sales, tour information, and all things Ben.

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For the Sake of the Song with Rob Heath

Sean — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:06:24 +0000

Rob Heath is an Edmonton based singer-songwriter who I met when I was visiting my parents a couple of years ago. He writes thought-provoking country flavored songs. His CD , Couple of Times Around the Sun, is a polished collection songs from a songwriter at the top of his game. Rob has a new CD coming out in the spring. Be sure to watch for it at his website, robheath.com.

Songs:

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For the Sake of the Song with Kyle Heimann from Popple

Sean — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:26:11 +0000

Fortunately, I was able to arrange an interview with Kyle Heimann of Popple. Popple are getting quite well known around the podosphere for their quirky, funny nerdy songs about life and faith.

Unfortunately, we had to reschedule the interview.

Fortunately, Kyle installed Skype so we could record in relatively high quality using his professional mic and mixer.

Unfortunately, his connection would cut out for about 4 seconds every minute or so.

Fortunately, he was willing to use Skype just as a conduit and record his own end of the conversation then I could piece them together.

Fortunately, that meant he could play songs live on the recording.

Unfortunately, the problem wasn’t with Kyle’s internet connection. His computer was taking a 5 sec nap every few minutes.

Fortunately, I just spliced in the album cuts of Popple’s songs.

Unfortunately, my editing program crashed just before I finished the editing, and I neglected to save it.

Fortunately, I had the original files, and just edited them together again.

Unfortunately, just as I finished saving the Mp3, I was tidying my hard disk and DELETED the WHOLE WORKING FOLDER!!!!! AARRGGHHH!!!

Fortunately, I edited it back together again and it’s awesome.

Songs:

Contra(© Popple)

Henry the Ninja(© Popple)

Peanut Butter Sandwiches (© Popple)

You can buy Popple’s CDs, including the new CD, Plaid, at Popple.us

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Podcast Extra: Remembering Willie P. Bennett with Washboard Hank

Sean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:27:16 +0000

For many years, I have loved the music and antics of Washboard Hank, both with his own band and as a member of Fred Eaglesmith’s band. Last week, he was in town performing and schools and playing a couple of promotional events for Twisted Pines Music and Art. I caught up with Hank and we reminisced about the life and death of his good friend Willie P. Bennett.

We were joined by Paul Northcott the A.D. of the Twisted Pines Festival who shared some of his memories of Willie P., and gave a sneak peek into some of the events happening at the Twisted Pines Music in Movies Festival on May 5-19 in Midland and Penetanguishene. Washboard Hank will be performing at the festival, and I hope to record a full episode of For the Sake of the Song with him, showcasing his songwriting and his music.

Information and tickets for the festival can be found at http://twistedpines.com.

In Conjunction with the Twisted Pines Music and Arts Festival

Sean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:04:48 +0000

About 18 months ago, we made the difficult decision to close the Mundy’s Bay Folk Society after 17 years due to rising expenses and declining attendance at our monthly live music performances.

I was quite excited when a new organization in our town sprung up to present live music. Twisted Pines Music and Art produced a 5 day festival of music, movies and visual arts last Victoria Day weekend at a variety of locations in Midland and Penetanguishene. I helped out stage managing one of the stages, and recording as many interviews as I could for my podcast. It’s not often that so many songwriters are in one place in my hometown.

Over the past year Twisted Pines has been quite active in producing a variety of events in my area: concerts, movies, author readings at local libraries, performances in local schools and regular after school workshops at the Penetanguishene library.

This May 9-19, they are presenting Twisted Pines Music in Movies featuring nightly screenings of music themed movies and documentaries, followed by Q and A sessions with filmakers and musicians involved in the movies and performances by some amazing bands. Festival Performers will also be doing presentations at a number of local schools during the weeks of the Festival. I’ll be there recording interviews, helping out where I can, and enjoying the general vibe of the festival.

Over the past year I have produced nearly a dozen programs in conjuction with Twisted Pines Music and Art. Check out the following:

Episode 8	John Wort Hannam	listen
Episode 15	Canada Day Special with Jowi Taylor	listen
Episode 19	Nancy Dutra	listen
Episode 20	Wendell Ferguson	listen
Episode 21	Hammel on Trial	listen
Episode 22	Magoo	listen
Episode 44	Manitoba Hal Brolund	listen
Episode 49	Paul Quarrington and Pork Belly Futures	listen
TwistedPines-Words and Music	A smattering of the November 30th Evening Featuring an introduction by Paul Northcott, Music by Pork Belly Futures, poetry by Holmes Hooke, and a reading by Claire Cameron with background music by Pork Belly Futures. A good time was indeed had by all.	listen
Twisted Pines at the Penetanguishene Library	Claire Cameron and Paul Quarrington Reading at the Penetanguishene Library November 30.	listen
	In November I was asked to give a presentation on listening to and creating podcasts at the Penetanguishene Public Library in conjunction with Twisted Pines. Here are my slides and notes:I have a podcast and you can too
	To Be Released: Interview with Washboard Hank and Paul Northcott remembering Willie P Bennet and promoting the upcoming Twisted Pines Movies and Music Festival.

End of an Era

Sean — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:59:45 +0000

There is a wonderful music store in Downtown Midland, Johnstone’s Music Land which has been run by 3 generations of the same family. It is a funky small town music store which has over the years sold musical instruments, stereos, rented rehearsal space, sold records, then tapes, then CDs, and rented PA equipment. They also were great about having a rack in front of the store for recordings by local musicians. In short, it is much like any other small town music store. I pop in there when I need strings for my guitar or just to shoot the breeze. When I went in the other day to chat, I noticed that the CD racks have been replaced by shelves and shelves of sheet music and more floor space for instruments. I asked Steve if they had gotten out of CD sales. He said that it was no longer profitable for a small business to stock and sell CDs. It’s been many years since I bought a mainstream CD, so I asked when they had had gotten rid of the CDs. He said that it was 2 years ago. I hadn’t even noticed. It was the only retail store where you could buy my CD. Ouch.

I also noticed a couple weeks ago that the gigantic Music World in a mall in Barrie has closed down and has not been replaced. I guess the world really has moved to digital.

I’ve inspired a meme and a Manifesto (kind of): Episode 47-Feedback Episode

Sean — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:11:55 +0000

I realized that I have enough feedback and responses to For the Sake of the Song to prepare a feedback episode, so here goes.

K7 Day on March 17 was a resounding success. I sent out voice messages to about 11 podcasts, and I received 3 voicemail messages: 1 for a Catholic Canadian and two which I’ll play here. Just a reminder that tomorrow is March K27. Take 7 minutes to send some voice feedback to a podcaster or two. K7 Day was also featured on the Canadian Podcast Buffet. Thanks Mark and Bob.

Check out the K7 Day group on Facebook. Join the group and remember to add to the conversation by leaving a message for a podcaster on the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month. P.S. my K7 feedback number is 206-337-0611 . I am hoping that this meme will catch on as the months go by.

A few episodes back, I featured an interview with Tom Slatter. Apparently that interview inspired Tom to think about why he started the Songwright blog and podcast. Here is Songwright – A Manifesto (kind of) « Songwright. I’m flattered to have inspired a manifesto– sort of.

Voice Feedback from: John Meadows of the exceptional On the Log podcast. Drew Beatty also left a voice message.

I recieved an email from Stevie Z from The Sieve recommending that I check out Robbie Hancock. I will definitely do that.
I got another email recommendation from Maria Johnson suggesting that I interview Joe Tunon (holymoly.net). I’ve done that and it’s scheduled for release on June 20. I love getting guest recommendations from my listeners. I figure that if someone likes another person’s songwriting enough to recommend them, then I should check that writer out. Thus far I’ve done about 4 shows based on listener recommendations. Keep them coming.

My daughter has taken to writing lovely songs. I have a recording of her singing Alley Cat.

For the Sake of the Song and A Catholic Canadian are finally available on the Itunes Music Store. It took me some time to get around to it because there is no Itunes client for linux and in order to submit a podcast, you have to have an Itunes account which requires that you give Apple a credit card number. Don’t get me started on that.

As always, you can leave comments on the blog, send me an email to ductapeguy at hotmail dot com, send me a voice feedback at 206-337-0611, or join the For The Sake of the Song Podcast group on Facebook.

Songs:

Theme Music:

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Happy Podversary To Me

Sean — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:06:42 +0000

Today marks one year since I recorded Episode 01- For the Sake of the Song-The Podcast. It’s been a fun time. In that year I’ve released 45 podcast episodes of For the Sake of the Song, but I’ve actually produced 54 episodes. I have shows ready to release on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month up to the middle of June. I have enjoyed interviewing other songwriters and it has certainly given me many insights into how and why people write songs.

I’m not going to say which episodes or guests were my favorites. Like songs or children, they are all my favorite. However, I’m interested in knowing which guests or songs were your favorites in the past year.

You can send your comments to ductapeguy@hotmail.com, leave me a voicemail at 206-337-0611. (Long distance charges to Seattle may apply),. or leave me comments here on the blog.

If I get enough response over the next few days, I might prepare a best of … clip show.

For the Sake of the Song with Manitoba Hal Brolund

Sean — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:16:07 +0000

For 20 years, Manitoba Hal Brolund has been travelling all over North America, perfecting his blues sound. He is a master of the blues and a Master of the ukelele. He is also a master at using the internet to promote his music, expand his audience, and develop new revenue streams. He has 8 CDs available at manitobahal.com, CDbaby.com, Apple iTunes, Bitmunk, PayPlay, Tradebit, MusicIs Here, Chondo, or GreatIndieMusic.

Tomorrow, February 29, 2008, he is releasing his new CD Worn Out Shoes. The show will be live from Montreal Canada and also happen simultaniously in Second Life at the House of Flames. A couple live versions of songs from that CD appear on this episode. Enjoy.

Discography

Worn Out Shoes – 2008
Come The Ruination– 2006
Resonator – 2005
Ukulele Bluesman – 2005
This Condition – 2003
Kick At The Stones – 2002
Railroad Bill and Other Folk Blues – 2000
When Hal Freezes Over – 1999
Flatland Cafe – 1997

When he’s not on the road on an endless tour, you can find him on Second Life: performing as his alter-ego Forsythe Whitfield. He is currently working on a new CD with David Essig and Mae Moore, which should be ready this spring.

Songs:

Worn out Shoes– (© Hal Brolund and Mae Moore)

Walls of Jerico (© Hal Brolund)

Name Dropping (links)

Web: www.manitobahal.comMySpace: www.myspace.com/manitobahal

CDBaby: www.cdbaby.com/cd/manitobahal

Second Life: Forsythe Whitfield – www.myspace.com/slbluesman

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For the Sake of the Song with Chris Yale

Sean — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:12:09 +0000

I first heard Chris Yale’s music on Bill Dey’s Country Music Cast. I quickly grew to love his catchy country-rock music with insightful lyrics. Chris is also a podcasting musician, though his podcasts are far too infrequent. He has released his music as pod-safe and is attracting a fair bit of attention among podcasters. He lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and grew up in Hollywood, California so he has lots of great stories.

Songs:

Go (© Chris Yale)

Something I Remember ( © Chris Yale)

What Might Have Been( © Chris Yale)

Name Dropping

Chris Yale Official Webpage

Chris Yale’s Blog
Chris’ Podcast
CHRIS’ MySPACE
YALE BROS PODCAST
Chris on The Podsafe Music Network

Bill Deys– Country Music Cast

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Bill Deys and I will be at Podcamp Toronto, a free 2 day conference February 23 and 24, 2008. Check it out at http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com

Download a Podcamp Toronto audio promo to use on your podcast here or here.

For the Sake of the Song with Trout Fishing in America

Sean — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:26:15 +0000

Trout Fishing in America are an Arkasas based folk-pop and chidren’s music duo based in Arkansas. Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood have been together since 1976 and have produced over 14 CDs. The newest release and Grammy nominated, My Best Day, was recorded before a live audience, and they also have a DVD available of this concert.

Songs:

Name Dropping

Troutmusic.com Their Amazing Webpage for all things Trout.
The story of Ezra’s AmazingTreehouse.

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I’m going to Podcamp Toronto, a free 2 day conference February 23 and 24, 2008. Check it out at http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com

Download a Podcamp Toronto audio promo to use on your podcast here or here.

For the Sake of the Song with The Undesirables

Sean — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:16:47 +0000

Corin Raymond and I began a conversation at the Minesing Unplugged Festival in June and completed it at the end of October at a house concert in Midland. For the first part of the conversation, we focused on Corin’s solo music career, then we were joined in October by Sean Cotton, Corin’s partner in the Undesirables, so we were able to discuss the differences between writing as a solo performer and writing for a duo. The Undesirables have a new cd out entitled, Doghouse Dreams Our host for the evening, Jiving Johnny also contributed to the conversation.

Songs:

Name Dropping

The Undesirables Webpage

The Undesirables on MySpace

Corin Raymond

Corin Raymond on Myspace

The Sean Cotton Band

The Sean Cotton Band on Myspace

Jiving Johny

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I’m going to Podcamp Toronto, a free 2 day conference February 23 and 24, 2008. Check it out at http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com

Download a Podcamp Toronto audio promo to use on your podcast here or here.

2007– My Year in Podcasting

Sean — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:23:05 +0000

Here’s a little roundup of my podcasting activity for 2007.

I have released 40 Episodes of For the Sake of the Song thus far and have about 9 ready to go in the upcoming weeks.

On the weekend of October 28, I was feeling sorry for myself that I wasn’t at Podcamp Boston 2 so I called several of my friends who were at Podcamp Boston and released about 4 Podcamp Boston Special Reports.

These reports evolved into a regular podcast for Podcamp Toronto with Connie Crosby. We have currently produced 6 Episodes of the Podcamp Toronto Podcast leading up to the event on February 23 and 24.

I produced a Podcamp Toronto audio promo to use on your podcast here.

2007 Also saw the release of my recording of my brother-in-law, Drew Beatty’s novel, White Trash Land, on Podiobooks.com . It has done fairly well for Andrew there.

I’ve continued to record audiobooks with Librivox.org and I continue to be a semi-regular host for the Librivox Community Podcast. Here is a list of the 15 podcasts I hosted for Librivox in 2007.

#	Date	Podcaster	Link to download file (Right click and download)
018	10 Jan 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 18
023	15 Feb 2007	ductapeguy and kri	Listen to LV Podcast 23: Valentine’s Special
025	01 Mar 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 25: Podcamp Toronto Highlights
026	08 Mar 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 26: More from Podcamp
028	22 Mar 2007	jimmowatt and Sean McGaughey	Listen to LV Podcast 28
030	05 Apr 2007	cloudmountainguy and ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 30
035	10 May 2007	ductapeguy ceastman starlite	Listen to LV Podcast 35: Children’s Literature Special
044	12 July 2007	ductapeguy and jim mowatt	Listen to LV Podcast 44
048	09 August 2007	jimmowatt	Listen to LV Podcast 48: 2nd anniversary of Librivox Special
050	23 August 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 50
052	06 September 2007	All of the Podcast Team and a cast of thousands	Listen to LV Podcast 52: One Year of Librivox Community Podcasts
057	11 October 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 57: ductapeguy’s podversary
064	29 November 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 64
066	20 December 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 66
067	27 December 2007	ductapeguy	Listen to LV Podcast 67

For the Sake of the Song New Year’s Eve Roundup

Sean — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:04:44 +0000

This Week, I thought I would do an End of year Round-up of For the Sake of the Song and replay some of the great music I’ve featured this year. It was tricky picking just 12 or 13 songs. Since March, I have recorded 45+ episodes of For the Sake of the Song. If each song had 3 or 4 songs, thats over 120 songs to choose from. This is episode 37, so you can see from above that I already have a number of shows ready for 2008. Upcoming guests include John Lunman, Peter Judd , The Undesirables, Trout Fishing in America, Mark Blevis, Manitoba Hal, Pork Belly Futures and Chris Yale.

I have also continued to be a regular contributor to the Librivox Community Podcast and have started a podcast for Podcamp Toronto. In 2007, I produced about 60 podcast episodes, and I’m not sure how many chapters and poems for Librivox.
Where I’ve Been

Upcoming in 2008

Songs in this Episode

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey) Alyssa Wright accompanied me on the spur of the moment and made me sound sooo good. Thanks.

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For the Sake of the Song with guest Bryan Murdaugh

Sean — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:15:05 +0000

Bryan Murdaugh is a Catholic youth minister, and singer-songwriter from South Carolina. He regularly releases new songs, videos and commentary on his website at bryanmurdaugh.com. He has also produced several children’s albums as Uncle Widget.

Songs:

Name Dropping

bryanmurdaugh.com Official Website

Bryan Murdauh on YouTube

Bryan Murdaugh on Myspace

Buy Bryan Murdaugh Imperfect Offering on CDBaby

Uncle Widget

Buy Uncle Widget: Bedtime on Mars on CDBaby

Buy Uncle Widget: ABC Sides on CDBaby

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For the Sake of the Song with guest Bri-Anne Swan

Sean — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:14:46 +0000

Bri-Anne Swan is a Toronto singer-songwriter who was raised in the Midland area. Her songs are populated with the characters and stories of the people she meets on the streets of Toronto and in the pages of the Bible, amongst other places. She has a beautiful clear voice, and is a fine guitar player. She is currently recording a CD and has an EP out entitled EePee.

Songs:

Name Dropping

Bri-Anne Swan website

Bri-Anne also has pages on Coffeehouse.ca and MySpace

Twitter

MP3 Audio Podcast for Facebook

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Podcamp Boston Special Report #4

Sean — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:34:42 +0000

I called Bill Deys of the Deyscast, Country Music Cast, and host of the Podcamp Boston back chat room shortly after Podcamp wrapped up. We spoke of the announcement that Podcamp is lifting Rule #4 that all podcamps be free to participants. This may help reduce the number of people who register for Podcamps but do not show up. We also talked about how I am an Internet Visionary. Three weeks ago I posted LOLephants on my Catholic Canadian blog, with lolcat captions on pictures of me. It included this picture of me running? from a T-Rex.

As often happens at conferences like this, a bunch of people had a crazy idea about LOLCats with dinosaurs. Before the end of the conference, Nico Pin had developed a website design, they had registered the domain and lolsaur.com was born.
I think it’s so cool that I had a similar idea three weeks earlier. Way to go guys. Bill handed the phone to Nico at this point. Nico and I talked about the ongoing discussion around having wifi at conferences like this. On the one hand, it’s a boon to people like me who can’t physically be at the conference, but can still participate via the Internet. On the other hand, it can detract from the SOCIAL part of social media– actually meeting the people you have encountered on the internet.

I hope you enjoyed my remote coverage of Podcamp Boston as much as I enjoyed creating it. Thanks to Mark, Bob, Nico, Jay and Bill for taking the time to talk with me.

Oh and I WILL be at Podcamp Toronto on February 23 and 24.

Podcamp Boston Special Report #3

Sean — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:13:33 +0000

I spoke with Bill Deys of the Deyscast, Country Music Cast, and host of the Podcamp Boston back chat room shortly after he woke this morning. Enjoy.

Podcamp Boston Special Report #2

Sean — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:27:18 +0000

I spoke with Mark Blevis in Boston about his impressions of Podcamp Boston. Jay Moonah was also on the line from Toronto, and you can hear Bob Goyetche in the background.

Librivox Community Podcast #57– The podversary episode.

Sean — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:39:36 +0000

Listen to Librivox Community Podcast Show #57– Ductapeguy’s Podversary

This episode of the Librivox Community Podcast marks my (ductapeguy’s) one year anniversary of podcasting. To celebrate, Jim Mowatt and I had a wide ranging skype conversation. I really consider being a Librivox volunteer and helping to produce the community podcast was my University of Podcasting. During the conversation we talk about current news around the Librivox community, as well as my other podcasts, For the Sake of the Song, and White Trash Land.

Topics Discussed:

Librivox on Twitter

Gesine provides an overview of ways to subscribe to librivox books using RSS, itunes, or by Email. Thanks To Tis and JackDale for setting up the code for the Chapter a Day Emails. You can also now click a link on the forum page of any work in progress to be informed when that audiobook is complete.

Explanation of the recent outages on Librivox.org

Changes to the Librivox Uploader.
Discussion of the Flac Audio format.

Special Rules Projects currently underway in the Librivox Community:

SPECIAL RULES MYSTERY: The 2nd Latchkey by Williamson

SPECIAL RULES: Exercises in Knitting by Cornelia Mee

LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007: “The Blue Tulip”

Sean (ductapeguy’s) other projects:

For the Sake of the Song: A podcast featuring interviews with songwriters and their songs.

White Trash Land A podcast novel by Andrew Beatty. Narrated by Sean McGaughey

Other sites mentioned:

podiobooks.com

JC Hutchins Seventh Son Trilogy

Sean’s Really Bad Review

Sean and Jim discuss a terrible user review Sean received on podiobooks.com and the librivoxian response to it. The discussion continued into the time honored, “What if I suck?” into styles of reading and the privilege and responsibility it is to be a reader of another person’s words.

Kara (kayray) and Henry drop by with this week’s stats.

To Subscribe to the Librivox Community Podcast, go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast
or hit this itunes link to get you to the subscribe page http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=203970211

Past and present Librivox Community Podcast files can be found at Archive.org

Archived shownotes for the Librivox Community Podcast can be found at http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/
and the rss feed for those shownotes is http://librivox.org/category/librivox-community-podcast/feed

I’m a Guest on RussTV– Again…

Sean — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:26:54 +0000

My buddy Russ Clayton was in Midland a few weeks ago playing at the Books for Brunch Festival. While we were in beautiful Little Lake Park, we recorded a new episode of Russ’ Children’s program for Youtube, RussTV. Russ also has a youtube channel, russy67, for his singer-songwriter material for grown-ups.

For the Sake of the Song with Dan Frechette

Sean — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:38:25 +0000

At the Minesing Unplugged Festival, I had the opportunity to speak with Dan Frechette. Dan is an iternerant folk singer and songwriter who is based in Winnipeg. It turns out that he also owns a Zoom H4 recorder, so we know he has good taste.

Songs:

Name Dropping

Dan Frechette home page

Dan Frechette on Myspace

Buy Dan’s CD, Lucky Day at CD Baby

Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour

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