Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed versions of the original sessions, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time not only a musician's musician, but a total people's choice player. Ottawa raised, Toronto based, Steve Marriner has been a blues harmonica player since the age of 11, and was just 13 and playing clubs, and only 14 when he won the Ottawa Blues Harp Blow-Off! In short, he's a monster player, but not just blues harp, but also guitar, bass, organ, and and he's a helluva singer and songwriter, and record producer/mixer too. We get into that a bit, in this performance focused cut of Steve's original album special session with Jeff, celebrating the release of his 2021 album Hope Dies Last. Steve delivers 3 live performances and talks about his evolving tastes and growth through listening and learning. Enjoy this 29 minute version of the original session.

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Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, from Toronto, powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & The Jane Does, Joan Smith and Tom Juhas, including a scorching cover of In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night). Runs: 24 minutes.

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It's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the original Feb 2022 full 51 minute episode #123, from Toronto, it's the incomparable Eamon McGrath, sharing songs from the accliamed album “Bells of Hope”, and more. Eamon, on his Martin guitar, gives you two exceptional renditions of original songs, and tells of playing in a band backing Daniel Johnston (RIP), and covering his poignant and everlasting “True Love Will Find You in the End”, which is also included! Episode run time: 29 minutes.  

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This episode has no upside down flags on pickup trucks. Just music and music history and stories about songs about freedom.

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50 years since! Let me take you back to 1972 when spring fever had a pretty cool soundtrack to go with.

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More Sax and drugs and rock 'n' roll, as it were. Think Morphine. And think more sexy sax licks and solos in rock songs, in this, the finale of a 2 parter starring some legends of the saxophone.

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War, what is it good for? The Saxophone apparently. Beyond the triumphant marches of the militaristic minded, the saxophone became well known in big band music, blues and jazz and soul and rhythm and blues which gave way to good ol' rock and roll music. IN fact before the guitar took over, it was the sax that got all the solos. With their smooth and brassy tones and their unique blend of power, finesse and versatility - what an instrument to create a mood and convey emotional context and help tell a story within a song.

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The Marx Brothers of Rock, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (R.I.P.) joined me two times in the early 2000s to talk about new albums. This was the second time, before which to the surprise of many, they'd won the Grammy. They tell that hilarious story and reflect on songs from their colourful past too.

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He was one of the most prolific and influential artists to emerge from the golden age of the 60s, from his tiny studio at Dunhill Records, PF Sloan was a songwriter, a collaborator, a facilitator, an innovator and a bonafide hit-machine who was everywhere. And then he disappeared. And when he reappeared and set about to release his memoirs. That's when he called me to talk about his life, and why he disappeared. This is that. 

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Without music, life would be a mistake. We have philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche to thank for that truth. Music has long been our solace and security, as important in times of trouble as it has been in moments of triumph. And still, thankfully, much of the connection to music continues to come through the speakers of the radio.

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Sun's out buns out as we're headed on a trip so far from here. 2 free tickets to paradise. Or something like it in an episode about songs about holidays in the sun.

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The boys are back at Wild Woods Blue with a new 6 song EP and their guitars and we get metaphysical as Kyle and Ben Hannah sporting their big ass beards and hats and grills, talk music, booze, weed, depression, meditation, dedication, and much much more.

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Let's dig into the albums that were in the record store racks in Jan/Feb/March 1972.

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Here's the fourth in a recurring series we call “Performances”, featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those sessions, and pull out a bit of the introduction, along with the artists song set-ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time featuring multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her smile and her stories to Wild Woods Blue Studio. Her songs have landed in television and movies, and on record, and here with her Martin guitar in hand, she performs two gems: “Slow Down”, and “Loved” and her voice and playing are PERFECT. Plus, as Dani Strong is both a teacher and manager of other artists, for anyone thinking of creating and releasing music, hear Dani's Dos and Don'ts. Runs 32 minutes. (For more, hear the full episode #191, runs 88 minutes).

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With a 2nd album near completion in the "Aftermath" of lockdown, the artist known as Hollowsage comes to catch us up and play his guitar and we play two gems off the debut record, in "Haunted" and "Monsters".

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You hate voice mail as much as I do? And avoid 80% of the unscheduled incoming calls like the plague? Let's go back to a time when everyone had a land line, white pages, yellow pages, no call display, no cell phone, and you had to get past her/his mom to talk dirty (or not) on the phone. Telephone songs, including the subcategory of the "drunk dial", from the 50's to now.

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A very special 52 minutes with the incomparable Eamon McGrath as his February 2022 full-length album Bells of Hope comes out. This Toronto-based songwriter made the album at home and it's immaculate, stirring and provocative, causing this podcast host to well up, particularly in the presence of a live performance in this interview of the song “Age of Unease”. You'll hear that plus another new song played live, and two more directly off the record, and as a bonus, Eamon's spectacular version of Daniel Johnston's “True Love Will Find You In the End”.

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I bring in some big guns from the interview archives, to share stories that exemplify the power of possibility, including Bowie. Bob Seger. Jeff Beck. Jimmy Page. Neil Peart.

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At 23 years old, she possesses great wisdom and kindness and talent. Let's catch up with the beautifully voiced Miranda Journey, in conversation plus a brilliant recent single and two songs live.

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You can't all play guitar. SOMEBODY'S gotta play the bass. Here's 10 prime examples of bands with bass players who weren't, at first.

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Wait a minute, who's singing? Oh. The drummer. That can't be easy. Here's some of the legends who did it best.

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When I say epic vocal productions, it can mean intricate and elaborate, or understated and simple, or deemed epic solely on the basis of just how passionate the artist sounds in the way he or she committed,

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In these times of uncertainty and anxiety and attention around wellness, there remains nothing more essential to your health and well-being than taking a breath! Songs about breathing in the air and breathing out the bull**** ;)

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We compile the stories behind the legends that left us in 2021.

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I remember this day vividly. November 1997, when I was still recording artist interviews to quarter inch tape, and using a razor blade to move stuff around and add in the perfect songs, to get the special ready for radio. In walked Angus Young. He wasn't alone. In fact, he was dwarfed by the presence of two people, sitting on either side of him, across the recording console. Their presence seemed to fade from my view as Angus and I got into his memories of the great Bon Scott, to whom AC/DC was paying tribute with the then forthcoming box set Bonfire, titled, in a way, by the former front man himself. Angus tells that story, and so many more about his and Bon's bond, and their rise together on the long way to the top.  

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Voted the #2 Open Format DJ in Toronto, "DJ WAVES" joins me in an in depth conversation about her career curating playlists and spinning songs at clubs, events, everywhere. And we talk "Stoner Rock", her guitar playing, coffee, and so much more.

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The battle isn't between you and the world – it's between you and your mind.  Songs and stories about what goes on in your head.

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Back in the studio after the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness world tour, Billy Corgan's Chicago band approached their fourth album, in a very different way, only partly in light of the firing of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain after the drug related death of the Pumpkins keyboard player. Billy and the Pumpkins talk about the4 making of ADORE, and more.

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An episode chalk full of brotherly love.

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An intimate conversation with Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert, in 1998, the year after Jeff's tragic passing May 29, 1997. 

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Inspired by the Seinfeld episode, it's all about songs of gold. 

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We get by with little help from our friends!  

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Here's the conclusion of a four-parter on classic albums from '71.  

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It's an episode about songs about luck, good, bad, or otherwise, and as is the way we do things -- it's untethered by genre or era. Enjoy!

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This is fun -- a 15-minute romp with stories and music -- all songs featuring the #9. 

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Somehow, I had never been to Las Vegas. Then along came the opportunity to talk to Carlos Santana, September 3, 2010,when I got to the Hard Rock Hotel with guitar in hand—a black Gibson SG, knowing that the SG was the model of guitar Carlos had long ago played, and it’s truly one of the classic models (also associated with Angus Young of AC/DC and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath). Carlos happily autographed it for use in an auction event I would later stage to benefit music therapy services in Canada. I thanked Carlos for coming and congratulated him on the imminent release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, featuring guest performances by everyone from Joe Cocker to Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland and more. This is that.

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This should move you. The latest podcast version of the radio show. 

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We tend to think of albums named after the artist or band alone, as their first albums. But what about bands whose self-titled album is not their debut? Who, why, when, and music to go with. 

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As in-depth as it gets, with Jeff Beck, this is a treat. 30 minutes with the musician musicians rave about. His story about "auditioning" with The Rolling Stones is a must-hear, here. 

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More you'll ever find out about and from Bob Seger in 17 minutes than anywhere else in this engaging conversation between Seger and Jeff Woods on songwriting and so much more. 

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The L-Word in this short sweet musically diverse romp, featuring the effect love has on you and me and the songs.  

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You can't help but love the artist and the insight of Joe Walsh who opens up here, as featured in a chapter of my first audiobook, about what it's like to be Ringo Starr's brother-in-law, to be mentored by Who drummer Keith Moon, how love had eluded Joe for so long, plus joining the Eagles, and gifting Pete Townshend a guitar and amp.

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Metaphorically speaking Part 1 - stories about songs that liken people to animals.  

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The conclusion of our in-depth conversation about so many things, including a story Trevor has never shared publicly about his past.

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Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, the third in a recurring series we call “Performances”, and what a performer he is! A guitarist whose talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages all over North America to this day. Joining Jeff Woods in-studio, solo, for a chat and impassioned acoustic performances, it's Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman. We're going back to a select session from March 2019 at Wild Woods Blue Studio, from which we've pulled out set-ups and stories, preceding three killer performances including two spirited originals: Who Shot John, and Agent Orange Blues (guess who that's about!?), and one classic cover: Statesboro Blues, in a loving nod to the Allman Brothers and the Blind Willie McTell song of 1928.  Runtime: 3 minutes. (For more, the original episode #33 runs 66 minutes)

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Come with me inside the fertile mind of a man who came to the crossroads and took a hard left, finding himself in a very unique position – one in which he could affect change in the lives of indigenous citizens while realizing incredible change within himself, on a road that leads straight back to music

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Nina Simone gets us rolling with an episode featuring stories about songs about FEELING. All the 'feels' in 16 minutes jam-packed with music and music history.

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The third of 3 in the series of interviews with Fleetwood Mac from Jeff's archives from 2003.

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