Drowning Man
There come’s a time when we got to give in. There come’s a time when whatever someone says, it will not take away what was said in the past. The wounds are too deep, the fragments are too close to…
October 31, 2014
The songwriter within us
When I was thirteen years old, I wrote my first song. I tried before, hell I even tried before I could play an instrument. But when I was thirteen I wrote a song that had a story, two verses and…
Watch The Rain
During the July and August this year, like most summers in the past eight years I spent quite a lot of time at festivals around Europe while touring with Sliotar. I was always a big believer as a musician you…
Be true to yourself
Posted at October 22, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Music promotion
When you start any kind of entrepreneurial business and if you take your career in music seriously, yes this means you as well, things will be tough. And often you are forced to pay so much attention on the finances,…
19th of October Blog update
Posted at October 19, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
Another week in the bag! I’ve been feeling the pressures of my self set project or recording 52 songs in 52 weeks more this week than ever before, so the week 42 was the one that finally decided to test…
You and I
It’s late on Thursday night here in Dublin as write this. The rain is beating on the window. It is not very inspiring day for a night walk, I can tell you. I am after spending a long day in…
On Songwriting Part 3
Posted at October 16, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songwriting
Back in June I wrote a few blog posts on songwriting and as this is something ongoing in my life, I thought to make these posts semi-regular feature on the blog. Songwriting should be something you are working on all…
Another free song
Most of you know by now I offer two free songs for anyone who sign up for my mailing list. Well I decided to add one more song to the mix 🙂 Bit over a month ago I recorded a…
Talent is overrated
Talent is overrated. Or let me rephrase that, talent is miss understood. To say someone is talented at something which at the end of the day is a learned skill, sounds like excuse for someone else not put in the…
No Safe Bets
Posted at October 10, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Songs
The weather in Dublin has definitely kicked into a winter mode, as they say here “sunny spells and scattered showers”. That means four seasons in one day. But there is something is like about this time of the year as…
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