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Sunset Swim
Episode #217: Sunset Swim (Song starts at 5:27) Going back to March 1997, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I had just arrived from New Zealand to settle into the big city of Melbourne, Australia. This
Autumn Evenings
Episode #216: Autumn Evenings (Song starts at 5:33) It was a pleasure to rediscover song #261, Autumn Evenings for this episode. I wrote it in 1993. Here we are now, in 2023 - Ive written about 800 s
Righto
Episode #215: Righto (Song starts at 4:10) - It struck me tonight as I recorded this episode, how grateful I am to be doing this. It is such a buzz, letting the song lead the way as I look at the crea
Trust To Receive
Episode #214: Trust To Receive. (Song starts at 7:12) Hi there & welcome to another episode. Here we are, looking at another song again, in a songwriter speaks style - inclusive, casual fun, en
Revolving Door
Episode #213: Revolving Door (Song starts at 5:42) Id completely forgotten about song #453, from 1999, Revolving Door. Well, it isnt 1999 now! The years have certainly whizzed by. The great thing a
New World Dawning
Episode #212: New World Dawning (Song starts at 6:22) I really enjoyed writing song #207, New World Dawning, back in 1992. The lines I never thought Id cry tears You can buy at the chemist Were ne
Got Away On Me Again
Episode #211: Got Away On Me Again (song starts at 4:02). Welcome to another episode. Picture me sitting at my piano, with the microphone on. Before me I have my songbooks. Ive picked out a song Go
Forever
Episode #210: Forever (Song starts at 4:20) I went outside tonight, just before I recorded this episode. The stars are incredible arent they? Infinite. Makes you realise how insignificant we are, re
A Certain Kind Of
Episode #209: A Certain Kind Of (Song starts at 4:41 ) This song, #213, is in a different style to the piano vocal ones that have made up the bulk of the songs featured on this podcast. It was writt
Country Gentleman Jack
Episode #208: Country Gentleman Jack (song starts at 4:30) Back in 1993, I was the piano man at Wairakei resort, in New Zealands north island, near Taupo - beautiful place. Outside of my regular ente