J.P. Kallio

Author name: J.P. Kallio

“Hey darling, don’t you worry about me. This is the life I was meant to live. I always loved the wide open road. And I always loved to sing my songs”   I am a Finnish-born singer-songwriter and an acoustic guitar slinger, spent most of my life in Dublin. Passion for writing honest songs about life. Everything you say might end up in one of my songs.

Guitar & Craft

80/20 rule of learning to play guitar

J.P. Kallio / September 10, 2014

When I was young and budding guitar player, I wanted to learn to play the guitar like Jimmy Hendrix, like […]

Thoughts & Essays

“Tell My Darling” and the next chapter

J.P. Kallio / September 9, 2014

When I set out on this journey to release 52 songs in 52 weeks, I knew it was going to

Music

Festival etiquette

J.P. Kallio / September 8, 2014

Once again I am writing a blog post while flying above Europe. I am on my way back from Belgium

Thoughts & Essays

7th of September Blog update

J.P. Kallio / September 4, 2014

So we are a full week in to September! Autumn is a funny time, it’s no surprise I hated school

Music

Soul

J.P. Kallio / September 4, 2014

So here we are, another album comes to an end. Once again sharing these songs with you guys have been

Music

Crafting a song

J.P. Kallio / September 4, 2014

I haven’t written anything on songwriting in a while and as I am in a middle of writing a new

Music

Email list for Musicians

J.P. Kallio / September 3, 2014

For as long as I have been writing about DIY music business, I always said how important is an Email

Guitar & Craft

Journey Instruments OF420

J.P. Kallio / September 2, 2014

It was November 2003. I was in transit in the Heathrow Airport. I had left Dublin few hours ago and

Music, Thoughts & Essays

Musicians sleeping patterns

J.P. Kallio / September 1, 2014

Once again I am standing on this cross road. My third album “Tell My Darling” is only days away from

Thoughts & Essays

31st of August Blog update

J.P. Kallio / August 31, 2014

This week we had the American college football game here in Dublin between Penn State and the UCF Knights. The