Why I won’t sing Galway Girl
I have been a “foreigner” in a city that has adopted me for nearly 20 years now. I came here as a young man barely out of his teenage years. I had been bitten by the Irish Traditional music bug….
Songwriting
The Purpose of a Singer-Songwriter
I’m sitting on the stage in the Porterhouse. It’s only 45 mins to Sliotar‘s Saturday night set. I’ve set up my equipment and I am strumming my guitar, just for myself. The house sound system is on and playing whatever…
Do we “Judge” too fast?
And another summer week flies by faster than F16 😀 As you might know I took few days off last weekend, and I must say I was in need of it. So this week I was hoping to be working…
Sunny Summer’s Day
Last week was a bit of a milestone for me, 25 songs and two albums since the beginning of the year! Well… I set out to do much more, but still getting that far did feel quite good 🙂 So…
Side By Side
Read Between The Lines by J.P. Kallio We have come to the end of the songs from my second album “Read Between The Lines“. This week’s song is the last track and it is called “Side By Side”. This is…
New album “Read Between The Lines”
I love writing. I love writing songs and I love writing blog posts. But the one time I always hit a brick wall is when I need to write about my own releases. I am fully aware you are supposed…
On Songwriting Part 2
I always had quite a mixed view of Sting. I mean I loved some of the early Police stuff, but later in his career I just found myself losing interest. So when I got my weekly Ted Talk Email telling…
On Songwriting
I have been writing songs since almost the first time I picked up my guitar. Songwriting has been a love of mine. Over the years I wrote a lot of music, but it seemed to come and go in bursts….
Knocked Down
Read Between The Lines by J.P. Kallio Last Christmas I got a lovely percent from my grandfather. He has been getting in to computers in the past few years, making videos and restoring old photos. He had scanned, and enhanced…
You Still Wonder
Read Between The Lines by J.P. Kallio When I share my story, people somehow feel more free to tell me about things that has happened in their life’s. Personally I love being able to do that, as I know how…
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