Jun 25, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
A fairly dark episode this time. I wrote the song “Do you still love me now?” in September of 1989… September 13th starting at 5:19pm… and done by 6pm… if you want to know exactly 🙂 …. I think a number of things came together and I was not in a...
May 6, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
This episode features a song I wrote a few years ago (2006) as part of my web project – a new song every couple of weeks. I think I had been listening to a lot of Feist at the time – and that had an affect on my approach to the song. I also love all that...
Apr 17, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
I write songs to exorcise my own “demons” and to work through relational or social interactions. Episodes in my life tend to stay with me and replay in my head over and over. I can put some of the stuff to rest by exploring elements of it. This song is sort of like...
Apr 2, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
Asked a 6 year old to give me a subject for a song. I love the process of songwriting and love to “play” withing the process. I never know where the muse will lead me. The suggestion from Hunter (the six year old in question) had to do with raptors… not the...
Mar 20, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
Took a while to get this episode finished. The creation of it was a bit more “process driven”. Again, I found myself mining my old journals – found the outline for this song in an entry from February 2003. I pulled it out and played around with it a bit (changed...
Mar 5, 2015 | The Steve Caston Show
It’s up to you to figure out what it’s about. That’s the way art works. Sometimes I work at something and it seems to be going along at a snail’s pace. It’s one of the reasons I’ve given myself deadlines around creating new episodes of the show. This time around I...
