28th of July Blog update
This post comes to you a bit later than usual. I’ve spent the past weekend at the Keltska Noc festival with Sliotar in the Czech Republic. Even though there is Wifi here, it was not very good during the festival…
July 28, 2014
Daddy’s Girl
This week’s song is a bit tricky to explain… So let me try to explain the inspiration behind it, maybe that makes more sense. All along I promised myself not to preach to you guys, except about the music business…
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…
What they tell you should do…
Posted at July 10, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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They tell you to write a hit song, something catchy , something that people will remember. Make it a love song, a happy song, a party song. They tell you to record the song in the best studio in town,…
How would Johnny Cash do it?
Posted at July 7, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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By now it is no secret that I am a quite big Johnny Cash fan. If you grew up in the western world, Johnny Cash is pretty much as well recognised name in music as Elvis or the Beatles. So…
City Lights
Posted at July 3, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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This week’s song is my favourite type of songs, story song. It started only as a riff, but soon found its home in a set of lyrics I had been half working on for a few weeks and it all…
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…
Old Dog
Posted at June 13, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
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Read Between The Lines by J.P. Kallio So we have still few more songs to go from “Read Between The Lines“. This week’s song is the second last song from the album. I wrote this song the morning after the…
On Songwriting Part 2
Posted at June 9, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songwriting
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…
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