FTSOTS with Eve Goldberg [41:14m]: Play in Popup | Download (207)

Eve Goldberg is well known in the Ontario Folk music scene as an organizer of the Woods Music and Dance Camp, with Borealis records and The Common Threads chorus in Toronto. She is also an accomplished singer, songwriter and musician with several albums to her credit. She currently has a single,The Streets of Burma, which is the centrepiece of a campaign by Amnesty International to free a jailed Buddhist monk in Tibet.

Songs:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

Let Me Rise (© Eve Goldberg)

The Streets of Burma (© Eve Goldberg)

Watermelon Sorbet (© Eve Goldberg)

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 Episode 39 with guest John Lunman [32:22m]: Play in Popup | Download (575)

Update: November 25, 2008. Sadly, John Lunman passed away suddenly of a heart attack last night. I will miss him. Here is the show I recorded with him last fall.

Episode originally posted January 14, 2008

I met John Lunman in 1996 at Don’s Coffeehouse in Elmvale. He has recorded 2 albums of original folk-rock songs in his home studio. His new CD, Highway 401 Tonight was released in July 2007. His song, Saltwater Skies is currently receiving airplay on Radio Newfoundland.

Songs:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

Saltwater Sea © John Lunman

My Side of the Door © John Lunman

Name Dropping:

johnlunman.com

myspace.com/johnlunmanHighway 401 Tonight can also be purchased through: HMV (http://www.hmv.ca/), Amazon.ca (www.amazon.ca), CD Baby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/lunmanjohn), and Indie Pool (http://www.indiepool.ca/).

Digital Stores:

If you want to purchase individual tracks or the whole CD, Highway 401 Tonight is now available through these digital stores:

Click here to go directly to the CD on i-Tunes.

Napster (www.napster.com), PayPlay (www.payplay.fm), Groupie Tunes (www.groupietunes.com), BuyMusic (www.buymusic.com), Ruckus (www.ruckus.com), Tradebit (www.tradebit.com), and InProdicon (www.inprodicon.com//) in Scandanavia.

Purchase Highway 401 Tonight in these Simcoe County, Ontario Locations:

Midland: Johnstone’s Music Land (Downtown at 280 King Street) and CD Plus in the Mountainview Mall (County Road 93 & Hugel Avenue)

Orillia: Manticore Books (Downtown at 103 Mississaga Street East)

 My New Guitar [14:12m]: Play in Popup | Download (343)

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.

 FTSOTS with the Wye River Band [32:41m]: Play in Popup | Download (220)

The Wye River Band with the Legendary Garth Hudson.

Taivi Lobu and Garth Douglas are the principal songwriters for the The Wye River Band. I sat down with them at the end of the Twisted Pines Festival.

Songs:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

Wye River Waltz (© Garth Douglas)

Get on Home(© Taivi Lobu)

Beds and Boots(© Sean McGaughey)

Sunset Pendulum (© Willie P. Bennett)

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 4TSOTS with Artemis Chartier and Dale Russell [36:02m]: Play in Popup | Download (174)

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:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

Walked on Air (© Artemis Chartier)

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

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 FTSOTS-Sept30-08 [25:45m]: Play in Popup | Download (282)

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

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

1. GENRE - Country
2. TOPIC - Summer
3. WORD/PHRASE - Bridge

My new Song: Summer’s Journey (©2008 S. McGaughey)

John Meadows from the On The Log Podcast with his song Friends Again (©2008 John Meadows)

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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 FTSOTS with Wild Turkeys [31:32m]: Play in Popup | Download (975)

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:

Theme Music: For the Sake of the Song (©2003 S. McGaughey)

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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