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Latest Episodes

Our Listeners’ Songs – what you are writing
October 20, 2020

This week SongTalk featured a few songs from our listeners. And it was loads of fun. We chose three of our listeners’ songs to take a closer listen to. Stuart Cook – near Manchester, England penned a delightful song inspired by the view from a hill nea...

How about that Eddie Van Halen, and more
October 12, 2020

This week we were saddened by the passing away of guitar icon Eddie Van Halen. We talked about his amazing talent and some more stuff. We talked about: Mandolin Orange cover version of Bob Dylan’s Boots of Spanish Leather,

We don’t need no stinkin’ coherent lyrics – with Neel Modi
October 10, 2020

Neel plays a track off his latest EP with special guest Lexie Jay from local TO Duo, Featurette. Ace Symmetry is Neel Modi’s experimental EP of progressive electro-pop. Odd time signatures and nonsensical lyrics are combined with inventive beats,

Creating a Concept Album with Gilbert Neal
October 03, 2020

This week Song Talk Radio welcomed Gilbert Neal to our studio. A master song craftsman, Gilbert Neal – on his latest release Mistakes of Memory shows the depth and diversity of his influences: Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd, ELO, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan,

Writing modern R&B with Rosh Grove
September 22, 2020

Rosh Grove is a R&B singer and songwriter from Toronto, ON, Canada. As an artist, Grove is a dreamer, believer and driven to be an achiever of success in the music industry. His music tells his story of perseverance and overcoming adversity regardless ...

How to improvise in a band with Michael Johnson and Little Rambunctious
September 20, 2020

Actor, playwright, filmmaker, and musician, Michael Louis Johnson shares his experiences with his improvisation bands Rambunctious and Little Rambunctious, 13-member and 5-member brass bands, respectively. We talked about:

Making complicated sound simple with Alex Cuba
September 17, 2020

Canadian Juno and Latin Grammy winning artist, Alex Cuba joined us to talk about his songwriting process and perform a new song, Solo Mia, live on the show. We talked about: Alex’s first visit to Canada as part of his father’s band

Get started on composing for films with Jeff Greenway
September 13, 2020

Jeff returns to our show to talk about scoring for films and how you can start on your own journey. From Pickering, Ontario, he has written music for film, worked as a session keyboard player, orchestrator and arranger in Toronto,

Remembering John Prine
August 14, 2020

On this episode we are talking about the great John Prine. This American treasure, perhaps a modern day Mark Twain, a peerless songwriter and chronicler of the lives of regular folk sadly passed away recently – one of the many victims of the Covid 19 p...

How to use a Looper pedal in Songwriting with Jacob Moon
August 10, 2020

Jacob Moon returns to show you how to use a looper pedal to create and perform full songs – great stuff! Stuff we talked about Inexpensive starter looper pedal TC Electronic Guitar Ditto Looper Effects Pedal