A Monthly Newsletter to Help You Discover Great Music. Enjoy!

Ever have one of those days where you can’t quite get settled and finally just let out a long sigh, tilt your head back and try to “zone out”? I was just having one of those zero productivity days and decided “why fight it?” and began to put some tunes...

2023 was a year of major challenges for me and I had to skip a couple of Picks articles over the course of the year. So I’m quite happy to be getting back to my favorite pastimes – listening to music, playing music, singing music, researching music and writing about...

This month we’re getting back to basics – acknowledging songs that many of us would consider among the best songs of some particular genre. Month after month I am beyond impressed by the variety, quality and emotional connection created by composers over the years. “wow”. SHOW TUNE: Where or When...

The other day I was chatting with a musician friend who’s a huge fan of country music. In fact, it’s all he ever listens to. He’s not alone of course… almost all the musicians I’ve collaborated with have performed country music at one time or another and Southern Alberta has...

This is the last issue before summer break so we’ll pull out all the stops. Since it is a collection of various styles, I debated how to label it… assortment, conglomeration, hodgepodge, jumble, medley, mélange, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, olio, patchwork, salmagundi, variety, grab bag? Anyway, here’s a bunch of...

Why do humans insist on torturing themselves with memories of love lost? It has long been a favorite subject for poets and there are hundreds of songs that use the emotional ecstasy or agony of falling in love as a theme. In the movie, when ultra-cool “Hitch” (professional dating consultant)...