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The multi-media mind of Darden Smith from 2022-04-17T19:00:20
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Why Catalogue Music is Outselling New Music–with Eric Apler from 2022-04-03T17:59:38
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Lessons from The Rutles–Songwriting Satire from 2022-03-22T18:31:10
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Songs with a social stance with Ann Vriend from 2022-03-17T13:31:29
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Working with a Publicist: Bad Parade’s Kari Zalik from 2022-03-06T20:00:26
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Mike Fuller and the Joy and Hard Work of SongWriting from 2022-02-28T21:42:32
Fresh Songwriting with Sarah Tolle from 2022-02-24T21:32:41
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Our Favourite Music Documentaries from 2022-02-13T20:00:33
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Storytelling In Song with Jeffery Straker from 2022-02-10T15:48:06
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Catchy and complex songs by Peter McDermott from 2022-02-02T01:31:24
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Writing Harmonies with Quote The Raven from 2022-01-24T20:52:16
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Keeping it fresh with Martha and the Muffins from 2021-12-21T22:28:50
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How to Write A Hit (or not) with Greg Wyard from 2021-12-17T15:12:03
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All About the Circle of Fifths from 2021-12-01T17:47:22
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Holiday Gift Guide 2021 from 2021-11-25T21:20:53
Freestyling with hip-hop artist D.O. Gibson from 2021-11-10T15:04:59
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Kelli Baker on writing songs full of atmosphere from 2021-11-04T20:25:16
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Lockwood Barr: Tips on Co-writing in Nashville from 2021-10-19T14:47:41
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Voices Only with Jordana Talsky from 2021-10-04T20:45:28
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Trusting in your producer with Marlon Chaplin from 2021-09-26T19:00:41
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Writing a song based on a name with Sean Bertram from 2021-09-22T13:47:53
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Music–the International Language from 2021-09-14T18:41:04
Summer Songs 2021 from 2021-09-06T22:08:31
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Keeping it simple (on purpose) with Jeremy Voltz from 2021-08-29T14:00:33
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From Classical to Personal with Bradley McCaw from 2021-07-30T17:31:22
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4 Steps to License Your Songs with Michael Elsner from 2021-07-19T21:54:03
Hit Songs with Unconventional Structures from 2021-07-09T19:02:57
Writing a soft-hitting protest song with Anna Larson from 2021-07-04T19:00:31
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Building the hooks into HipHop with Big Greg from 2021-06-27T18:05:53
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How we became the songwriters that we are from 2021-06-13T19:00:51
How To Write A #1 Hit with Christopher Ward from 2021-06-01T18:25:17
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What’s a record label anyway? With Geoff Kulawick from 2021-05-23T19:00:07
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Electro Jazz with Nabil Durzi&Michael Massaro and recording your library of songs from 2021-05-17T15:33:07
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Challenging the Tyranny of 440 hz from 2021-05-11T00:09:42
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All about NFTs in the music business with Eric Alper from 2021-05-02T19:00:19
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Tips, Vaccines, Drum Kits and Song Tips from 2021-04-27T14:27:03
Home Recording and Digital Audio Workstations–Part 1 from 2021-04-16T19:41:10
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The crazy tales of rock n’roller Greg Godovitz from 2021-04-11T19:00
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Mikalyn–Getting started early with songwriting from 2021-04-04T19:35:04
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2nd Annual Songwriter Challenge: Listener Songs #2 from 2021-03-21T19:00:29
Funky Collaboration with Jellyfish Interrupted from 2021-03-14T18:12:04
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Tomato Tomato and How Writing Simple Songs Can Be Complicated from 2021-03-09T19:58:58
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Old school reggae with Juno winner Kirk Diamond from 2021-02-28T20:00:44
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2nd Annual Songwriter Challenge: Listener Songs #1 from 2021-02-21T21:30:43
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New Life to Old Songs with The Fugitives from 2021-02-17T16:20:47
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The 2nd Annual Songwriting Challenge Results: Our Songs from 2021-01-31T15:58:03
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Making Your Influences Your Own with Jay Gordon Wright from 2021-01-26T21:32:50
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90s Grunge Revival with Delyn Grey from 2021-01-17T20:00:16
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Recording at The Warehouse with Focus Your Audio from 2020-12-27T17:46:10
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Writing Songs For A Living with Mark Cawley from 2020-12-24T20:54:23
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Harpin’ Norm Lucien Returns from 2020-12-06T19:17:17
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Writing From The Heart with Melanie Peterson from 2020-11-29T20:22:42
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Holiday Gift Guide 2020 from 2020-11-22T22:05:34
Songwriting tips: Don’ts to not do as much and Do’s to do more often from 2020-11-19T15:59:09
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How To Write Songs (if you don’t play an instrument) from 2020-11-10T01:44:34
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Writing, recording, and releasing a song in 48 hours with The Sun Harmonic from 2020-11-01T20:00:09
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Writing the same song in French and English with Izabelle from 2020-10-25T21:45:49
Our Listeners’ Songs – what you are writing from 2020-10-21T01:21:15
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How about that Eddie Van Halen, and more from 2020-10-12T19:00
We don’t need no stinkin’ coherent lyrics – with Neel Modi from 2020-10-10T13:16:13
Neel plays a track off his latest EP with special guest Lexie Jay from local TO Duo, Featurette.
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Creating a Concept Album with Gilbert Neal from 2020-10-03T15:31:11
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 ...
Writing modern R&B with Rosh Grove from 2020-09-22T19:00:17
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 i...
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How to improvise in a band with Michael Johnson and Little Rambunctious from 2020-09-20T19:00:57
Actor, playwright, filmmaker, and musician, Michael Louis Johnson shares his experiences with his improvisation bands Rambunctious and Little Ramb...
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Making complicated sound simple with Alex Cuba from 2020-09-17T19:00:47
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.
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Get started on composing for films with Jeff Greenway from 2020-09-13T14:57:15
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, orch...
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Remembering John Prine from 2020-08-14T18:04:21
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 aw...
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How to use a Looper pedal in Songwriting with Jacob Moon from 2020-08-10T22:05:14
Jacob Moon returns to show you how to use a looper pedal to create and perform full songs – great stuff!
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Collecting Your Songs – How To Build An Album with Blair Packham from 2020-07-19T19:20:33
Song Talk Radio is happy to welcome our good friend Blair Packham to the studio. This episode, Blair is talking about his songwriting and the latest songs that he is working on. In fact, he will pr...
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Being an established musician but starting out with home recording with Michael Louis Johnson from 2020-07-12T13:42:20
Michael talks about what it’s like being an established musician but being a beginner at home recording.
Actor, playwright, filmmaker, and musician, Michael Louis Johnson has lived ...
How to write a good love song with Jesse Parent from 2020-06-28T19:00:26
Kitchener, Ontario-based singer-songwriter and storyteller Jesse Parent talks about the danger of his song “For a Moment” becoming a conv...
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What makes a good Protest Song? from 2020-06-26T18:07:41
So are people still writing protest songs? How do the protest songs of the ’60-’70s compare to the songs by Childish Gambino and Kendrick Lamar?
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: Pride Special from 2020-06-25T16:18:30
In this throwback, we chatted with musical book writer Stephen Witkin about songs with a pride theme, with song examples.
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Be Better At Performing – Tips from Blair Packham from 2020-06-19T00:45:19
One of our favourite guests drops by to give practical advice on performing. Blair Packham – songwriter, teacher, performer and 80’s hitmaker – talks about the best practices to e...
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Writing a COVID-19 song with Jesse Parent from 2020-06-08T02:56:13
This week we welcomed Kitchener, Ontario-based singer-songwriter and storyteller Jesse Parent to the show to talk about his COVID-19 pandemic inspire...
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: Non-verbal Hooks from 2020-05-28T18:02:17
Ooh and ahh and doo and doe your way back to 2017, where we talked about songs with non-verbal hooks.
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The Best Songs Have Only 3 chords from 2020-05-22T23:34:08
This week on SongTalk we look at a simple songwriting technique that may be more complicated than you think – songs with one chord progression.
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Turning emotions into songs with poetry with Loryn Taggart from 2020-05-17T23:00:42
This week we welcomed Loryn Taggart back to the show, after her first appearance almost...
Throwback Thursday Themeshow: The Song Talk Meetup from 2020-05-07T18:02:03
In this throwback from 2017, we talked about the benefits of attending the live Song Talk Meetup (formerly the Songwriter’s Meetup, former...
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: All About Chords from 2020-04-30T18:02:37
Here’s a super informative show from 2016 with Frank Horvat, who told us everything we were afraid to ask about chords and more...
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: Protest Songs from 2020-04-23T18:02
We talked about protest songs way back in 2016, and things still didn’t get any better. Here’s a throwback to dissension through music.
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Songs for Self-Isolation with Frank Horvat from 2020-04-19T17:09:24
Long-time friend of the show, Frank Horvat talks about his “Songs for Self-Isolation” project.
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: Unusual Lyrics from 2020-04-16T18:02:43
For this Throwback Thursday, we’re going back to 2016 for a special episode with guest co-host Janice Ho to look at three songs with unusual lyrics and what that means to communicate your son...
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Throwback Thursday Themeshow: Song Structures from 2020-04-09T18:02:38
Back in 2016, we talked about songs with interesting song structures, including Band on the Run, I Lost My Heart in San Francisco, and Fading Into Obscurity. What song stands out to you as one with...
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