Major & Minor Notes

Joe Macdonald's Stories & Songs

  • About Joe
  • Topics
    • Life
    • Music
    • Sports
    • Politics

Recent

One Hundred Years of Music

March 6, 2020

In the 1920's or 1930's, the famous American folk singer, Pete Seeger, as a teenager, accompanied his father on a trip. His father worked for the Smithsonian Institute and his task was to travel through the south and discover iconic and "undiscovered music" that should be preserved. They left Washington and traveled the Continue Reading

Guitar Chords

February 28, 2020

I haven't picked up a guitar in six or seven weeks. My guitar. Sort of a self-imposed exile, I guess. Probably the longest time I haven't strummed a chord since I was sixteen. I've likely written close to a hundred songs. I've played most of the chords at least once. And most of the main ones, thousands of times. In Continue Reading

An Album’s Review

February 23, 2020

For whatever reason, with technology now, I listened to Tom Waits' Closing Time this morning. Perhaps for the first time in over twenty years. It used to be one of my favourite records. In retrospect, in my university days, I was a more dedicated student of music than I was to economics and philosophy, my double-major. In Continue Reading

Older

Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2020

Our Best Friends

February 3, 2020

Racism and Ignorance

February 1, 2020

Thoughts on Kobe Bryant

January 27, 2020

Meeting Our Heroes

January 26, 2020

My New Home

January 25, 2020

Two Chamber Maids

January 23, 2020

Sincere Flattery

January 23, 2020

Hockey and Me

January 19, 2020

Team Sports and Band Music

January 17, 2020

One Hundred Years Ago: Prohibition

January 17, 2020

The Spirit as an Element of Health

January 16, 2020

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS

Bridge and River Songs

Here is my album - give it a listen.

All songs written and sung and mostly strummed by Joe Macdonald
Drums by Peter Von Althen
Bass by Philippe Charbonneau
All the other magic by Jim Bryson
Recorded, Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Jim Bryson at Fixed Hinge Studio
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova at Bova Lab Studio
Cover Art Design by Rachelle Maynard and Michael Murray

Read by Date

2020: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2019: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2018: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2017: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2016: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Copyright © 2021 Joe Macdonald | Log in