Cathedral – Song and a Chat

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Episode #18: Cathedral – (Song at 6:08 & 28:50)

Hi, If you’ve been here before, welcome back for another dose! If you’re here for the first time, thanks for having a listen. What I’m doing is offering you an insight into the song, where it came from, how it came together – plus of course you get to hear a demo of the song.

I particularly enjoy looking back at the time I when I wrote the song, seeing what springs to mind… It’s amazing how a song is like a bookmark in time, for your memory.

This week’s song is Song# 357. Cathedral is a song I wrote when I needed to dig deep to get through a tough time. Writing this song was therapeutic, but art is great because it can become something else, something better than a dark piece of therapy. It can become something uplifting, something that might mean one thing to one person and mean something else to another listener. A song can be transformative for both the writer and the listener.

I think the arts are so important. It’s getting us through these covid weeks – it’s getting our minds off what is a very difficult and tragic time

If you want 30 minutes in another world, step into the shoes of this songwriter and I’ll take you somewhere else.

I’ll take you the place where I go, the place I discovered as a kid, the place I take stock, regain my balance and get a fresh perspective.

2 for 1 again this week: first up, a piano /vocal demo and then a band version of this week’s cathedral to finish. Enjoy!