Sean McGaughey- For the Sake of the Song

Conversations with Songs and Songwriters Join Sean McGaughey and guest songwriters as they explore the motivations and process of songwriting.

Episode 04- For the Sake of the Song– Angels

Filed Under (audiobook, blog, for the sake of the song, librivox, PAB2007, podcast, podiobook, white trash land, whitetrashland) by Sean on April-4-2007

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I have no guest for Episode 4, just little old me and 2, count ’em 2 brand-spanking new songs.

Last week I was deeply moved by this picture in the Toronto Star on Thursday March 29.

The picture, by Cathie Coward, from the Hamilton Spectator shows the impression left when a 5 year old boy fell 9 stories from a balcony– and lived to tell the story. That very day I wrote the song, Angels (Â© 2007 Sean McGaughey). I hope it moves you as much as it moved me. The article and picture can be found here (from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record).

Every week the volunteers at Librivox.org choose a public domain poem to be recorded by as many volunteers as possible. This week’s poem is Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland.

Song #2 Beautiful Soup ( Written by Lewis Carroll Arranged by Sean McGaughey). I have dedicated my arrangement of Beautiful Soup to the public domain.

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Canadian Podcast Buffet

Buffalo Live! Music Podcast

Upcoming Guests of For the Sake of the Song: Aaron Howes, Ken Allen, Pushbuttons, Chuck Baker and Russ Clayton.

Song 3: Chuck Baker: Music for Depicting Fight Scenes, Riots, etc.

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1 Comment posted on "Episode 04- For the Sake of the Song– Angels"

Russ Clayton on April 9th, 2007 at 11:13 pm #

I’m thinking odd and even Thursdays would be nice. Great job on the new songs. It’s good to hear you going solo this time! That’s quite a picture, indeed! I look forward to the next podcast.