Songwriting Magic with Jim Byrne

Often the Scots writer hears an echo in a tongue that adorns his meaning with a richness, clarity & conciseness impossible in English. That echo is from Braid Scots, from that variation of the Anglo-Saxon speech which was the tongue of the great Scots civilisation. LG Gibbon

good morning painting by Hilary Pecis

New song. I didn't share the early drafts on this one. These are the finished lyrics. I like the tune. It's called, 'Sure, but I’m just a man'. #lyrics #songwriting

Thelonious Monk didn’t believe in wrong notes Critics and even fellow musicians often called his playing eccentric or “wrong” His response was pure Monk: “The piano ain’t got no wrong notes” He kept playing exactly what he heard — strange, angular, and changed jazz forever.

David Stone Martin

A passage from Born in Kyle on the Scots words we used every day growing up in Ayrshire. Is a “sleekit wee nyaff” no jist a perfect wey tae describe a wheen o unionist politeicians staunin next week? I narrate the book on Audible, and will read from it @GirvanFolkFest on Sunday.

A braw day in Auld Reikie for me, @joao_kay and ilka bodie that believes in Scotland.

If art is about the process not the result then why do artists want people to listen to their songs or look at their art?

Ivy Jacobsen, Window Into Spring

Morning.. #LucyCulliton

I revisited these lyrics this morning. It's more of a monologue over music than a song. It's called 'When The Air It Is Still'. #Lyrics

Glasgow University Chapel is an astonishing place full of beautifully crafted artworks.

Another draft of I See A Bluebird lyrics.

First draft lyrics a new song. In 2026 we needs some old fashioned joy in a song. I see a bluebird

There's clearly a very artistic moss artist involved here. I've interviewed all of these pieces of moss and it turns out it's the fir tree-like moss on the right that has organised the rest of the community into this pleasing pattern. Good job moss boss.

Latest draft of 'If I could just steal a song'. I suspect I won't be changing it much beyond this - other that when I'm singing it - with slightly different words by accident. #lyrics #songwriting

Marc Chagall, Still Life with Vase of Flowers, 1918

The beginning of tech music

The rogue Zionist state doing what it has done since it was created on the suffering of the indigenous people of Palestine - attacking other nations in the region with the impunity American support gives them.