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It’s About Strawberries
Every time I introduce the song “Strawberry Season” I insist that it’s not about sex, it’s about strawberries. That’s why you can play it to a group of schoolkids in good conscience. Grownups,...
View ArticleMan’s Dominion
I was feeling low and started noodling to cheer myself up. Lo and behold, a cheery progression popped out. I figured I’d shoot a video to make sure I remember my chords. This is really rough. I hear...
View ArticleGod Knows Why (2nd draft)
This is a second run at the tune I posted last week, which I had tentatively titled “Man’s Dominion.” In this version, which is still quite rough, I’ve added a bridge and there are now lyrics as well....
View ArticleHow to write songs (and live happily)
Someone asked me the other day how to write songs. Here’s what I said: Listen for your whole life. Sing or whistle or hum everywhere you go, all the time. Honour what you receive. Be open to what you...
View ArticleMissabay School is cool
Students in Grade 3 Like my friends and me We learn the Golden Rule At Missabay School Chorus: Missabay School, Missabay School, Missabay School is cool! We go to school by bus Every one of us And when...
View ArticleThat’s another miracle!
I had a chance to play “That’s The Miracle” for master songwriter Steve Poltz in the Roots Music Canada studios. My good buddy Andy Frank was crafty enough to capture the moment on video as Steve...
View ArticleThe Flicker and the Flame – live
The Flicker and the Flame is a song I wrote for my folks a while back, and gave to my dad on his birthday. The images were drawn from the many happy moments that have defined and graced my parents’...
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Jesus was a carpenter
I just spent a few days building a shed, of sorts – a songwriter’s stage in a studio, really, but it has the look of a shed. That was an instinctual thing, but the resemblance is more than random....
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Strawberry Season at last
It’s been 6 years since my last CD “Roll Away” was released as a limited-edition live album. In the meantime, I’ve kept working diligently on on my stuff, learning and unlearning and paying attention....
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Sweet Surprise — Saturday in Port Hope
It’s been years since I’ve done a solo gig in Northumberland County, and this one’s long past due. I’m thinking of it as the flip side of my Hugh’s Room CD release last winter. That one was for the...
View ArticleCredit where it’s due: Ian Tamblyn
A few times recently I’ve been introduced as an ‘adventurer,’ which I take as a great compliment—one I hope some day to have earned. The truth is, I see myself as a journeyman, at best, in just about...
View ArticleLiving the dream, lately
Recently I’ve had a unique opportunity sort of fall into my lap. All of a sudden I’m booking a travelling music show about Canada’s Northwest Passage, and planning my next trips to remote Canadian...
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Taking the show on the road
It’s a dream come true, alright… my band and I are touring The Northwest Passage in Story and Song throughout southern, central and eastern Ontario over the next month or so. Watch for us in Owen...
View ArticleThe Canadian Bob Dylan
It’s Bob Dylan‘s seventieth birthday, and we’re going to celebrate this American cultural landmark in true Canadian underdog fashion: by claiming some of the limelight for ourselves. That’s right: the...
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Jonathan Byrd flies north and south
By his own assessment, he’s a Carolina guitar-picker, but a Texas songwriter at heart. Yet Jonathan Byrd has found a warm reception here in Canada, with his story-driven songs, wide open ears and...
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That ukulele thing
The ukulele must be the magic carpet of musical instruments. Mine has taken me everywhere. For the umpteenth time over the past few years, I’m doing a media interview today, in part based on my work as...
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The lonesome death of the scary song
It’s that time of year again – when the late Bobby ‘Boris’ Picket’s greatest hit, “The Monster Mash” comes back to life for its annual appearance on radio playlists across the land. But aside from the...
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Songfellows’ Serenade
Really looking forward to this gig with my old pal Brent Mason, multi-award winning songwriter and scene-builder from Saint John, NB. Click here for more details from the Facebook event page. Two...
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Jesus was a carpenter
I just spent a few days building a shed, of sorts – a songwriter’s stage in a studio, really, but it has the look of a shed. That was an instinctual thing, but the resemblance is more than random....
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Kim Stockwood: back to the water
Perhaps no place, any place, is as proud of its musical traditions as the island of Newfoundland. The musical currents run deep there, as generations of great songwriters and musicians have proven. Kim...
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