{"id":32,"date":"2009-03-18T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:52:16","slug":"muses-clues-from-feb09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/muses-clues-from-feb09\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse’s Clues from Feb.09"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will be posting my monthly article regularly from the Muse’s Muse<\/a> here after its publication in the newsletter. The Muse’s Muse is a huge songwriting community created by Jodi Krangle, and I have written for the newsletter since the early days. If you’ve never visited Jodi’s site, you’ve been missing out! <\/p>\n

The article is meant to point out websites that might inspire you as a songwriter, whether from a creative or technical standpoint, or just to give you an idea of who else is out there.<\/p>\n

Here is the article from the Feb.09 issue:<\/p>\n

M u s e ‘ s C l u e s : by Irene Jackson
\n—————————————————————–
\nThis past Christmas season, my husband and I attended an event
\nwhich has become an annual tradition for many Canadians. Stuart
\nMcLean is a broadcaster with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting
\nCorporation) and every Sunday we tune into his “Vinyl Caf\u00e9” on
\nCBC Radio. He often tours the country with the show, and during
\nthe month of December he has a live Christmas show that he brings
\nto many cities across the country. His show is also broadcast on
\nNPR in the US and can be heard online through a podcast:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/vinylcafe\/home.php<\/a><\/p>\n

The Vinyl Caf\u00e9 is a collection of “stories, essays and music
\n(both live and recorded)” and Stuart McLean is a wonderful
\nstoryteller. Not only does he read his own writings on air, but
\nhe encourages listeners to submit their own stories and he will
\nusually read one or two of them each week as part of the show. A
\nsong usually follows the story, and often the song relates to the
\nstory topic. The show is folksy in nature and always fun to
\nlisten to and Stuart McLean is a distinctive voice who never
\nfails to entertain. <\/p>\n

Whatever style you write in, however you think of your
\nsongwriting, you are always telling a story. The story might
\nonly be about a moment in time or painting an emotional
\nlandscape, but the best songs have a great beginning, middle and
\nend, just like a great story. Storytelling itself has become
\nalmost a lost art in our technically-obsessed world, but it is
\nsomething every songwriter should think about when penning
\nlyrics, and the Vinyl Caf\u00e9 is a great re-introduction to the
\nworld of telling stories.<\/p>\n

You can get the latest podcast from the website by either
\nsubscribing or downloading straight on to your computer. Listen
\nto just one of these shows and I guarantee you’ll be inspired!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will be posting my monthly article regularly from the Muse’s Muse here after its publication in the newsletter. The Muse’s Muse is a huge songwriting community created by Jodi Krangle, and I have written for the newsletter since the early days. If you’ve never visited Jodi’s site, you’ve been missing out! The article is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,34,317],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-muses-clues","tag-muses-muse","tag-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}