I know the excitement all too well of running down the street to the record store and fetching the latest album—those were the days when streaming sites weren’t the digital sovereigns of the music world. 

Things have drastically changed now…

Maybe it’s Can’t Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley) It’s Only Love (Simply Red), or perhaps Back in The Crowd (Tom Waits) that does it for you—but songs have the power to evoke powerful emotions and bring back memories. While…

Let me ask you a question: when listening to a song, do you perceive the silence between the notes?

If you do, you know that the breaks in the rhythm work with the notes to give any song its unique…

A song or sometimes just a few lyrics can leave a lasting impression; occasionally you’ll find yourself humming along to the melody of a song heard long ago. Somewhere behind all that noise of burdening thoughts, a song might peek…

I am often asked about songwriting, where do the ideas come from etc ........ 

Sometimes the melody comes before any words, strangely often words come quickly once the melody is in my head.  

With a few songs I have fallen…

The memories are all a bits hazy now, I know I’d learnt a few new chords and had just recently bought my new Fender Stratocaster guitar. 

I guess I was just feeling a bit confident with my new musical prowess. 

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