I was a guest recently on a podcast about songwriting as a craft for the grown ups, which also featured eight of my tracks. So here’s the track listing.
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202207June
Podcast track listing
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Image by Annie Spratt from Pixabay 202212MaySo I’m only going to record an album
Help me create a splash! I’ve got at least ten tunes itching to blow my tiny mind!
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202108February
Musical intuition meets the blues
As regular readers will have read previously in this erratic chronicle (you can take alliteration too far. Ed.), I’ve really enjoyed playing solo over the last couple of years.
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201918December
The Strange Brew Sessions EP
Impossibly catchy, clever songs in this first solo release from James Bisset, longstanding member of cult folk-rock group Caedmon.
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201909May
And then we moved to Scotland
For years, my day job was building and managing websites. At night, I jammed and recorded, wrote tunes and played guitar but I earned my living designing, coding and developing for the web.
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AcousticAid, Manchester 2017. Image copyright © Barnabas Mersich Media 201713JuneEnergise!
I was in Scotland recently, and bought a copy of the Sunday Herald, for a while there the only newspaper to support Scottish independence.
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201718April
Yamaha RGX A2
Yamaha are consistently underrated by the fan-boys. So here's a review of one of their more inventive recent guitars.
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201703April
Open Mic night 2
A couple of months ago I wrote about the importance of Open Mic nights for the development of your writing and performing skills.
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201707March
Groove ain’t got no algorithm
Being an anal sort of fellow, I group the various music apps on my iPhone into a ‘Play’ folder for all the tools that are supposed to help me create, and a ‘Listen’ folder for all the apps I can us
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201705January
Open Mic Night
For most of 2016, I've been playing once a week, three songs at a time in my very own local bar. It's been a revelation.