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The art of songwriting with The Sun Harmonic
January 12, 2016

Songtalk Radio welcomed multi-talented artist The Sun Harmonic (aka Kaleb Hikele) back to the studio for a second sharing of his song writing skills. “Born (I Have Awakened)” is a stream-of-consciousness, spiritual/traditional style a capella song that...

Putting a fresh spin on the familiar with Callie Deacon
January 05, 2016

Young singer-songwriter Callie Deacon shared her exceptional songwriting talent, impressing the guys with her ability to spin familiar phrases and ideas into original ones.  Callie takes strong cues from Taylor Swift and Sam Mendes. -

Holiday Special 2015
December 15, 2015

For our third holiday special, it was the Song Talk Radio family only – Bruce, Neel, Phil, Janice and Etain (on tech). Phil shared some interesting holiday song trivia and a Christmas jingle from his old punk-pop band, The Parkdale Hookers. …

Mark Martyre writes melodic word pictures
December 08, 2015

Mark Martyre is a Canadian writer and musician. His prolific song writing has produced 3 full-length studio albums since 2012: Down, Record (2012), London (2013), and Red Letters (2014), as well as several live records, and bootlegs.

How to write songs for other artists with Braeden Mitchell
December 01, 2015

The always brilliant Braeden Mitchell returns to Song Talk Radio to talk about co-writing, writing songs for other artists and getting back into the songwriting groove after taking a bit of a break. - https://youtu.be/XQiQE_OYh5c -

Neel Modi and Sonja Seiler show us creative collaboration and more
November 24, 2015

Neel Modi is a multi-talented songwriter, drummer and keyboardist with an eclectic collection of recordings from the quirky to the imaginative. On this show, he presented “Depend on Me” – based on a challenge to write a song about a car accident from t...

Gary Duke: Pushing yourself to try new approaches
November 17, 2015

Drummer, App writer, UX designer, guitarist and songwriter Gary Duke returns to our show (he was one of our first way back when!) and talked about exploring micro-tunings and pushing himself to try new approaches to songwriting. - Gary on Facebook

Get loaded on songwriting ammo with One in the Chamber
November 10, 2015

One in the Chamber (Mike Baise - vocals, rhythm guitar, Cecil Eugene - lead guitar, vocals, Christian Dotto - bass, Gerrod Harris - percussion) join us to discuss their songwriting process as a band.  We talked about: -

It’s the 2nd Anniversary Show !!
November 03, 2015

We celebrate our 2nd Anniversary with quizzes, cake and a couple of tunes from guitarist extraordinaire Gary Woods. - We even had noise-makers so you know it's serious stuff!

Jenny Ritter brings a little Victoria to TDot
October 20, 2015

Jenny Ritter and her very cool guitarist Tyler Belluz entertained us with a rich variety of tunes all beautifully sung. She started writing in her early 20's. Her first band - The Gruff - played for 10 years.