Behind the song: Thanks To You
I learned to play the guitar on a vintage nylon-string that the whole family shared. It wasn’t mine in…
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The Great Deep and how it happened
When On The Edge was finished in 2010, it felt like the start of something. The Ryan Calder Band…
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On The Edge: The Album, The Brotherhood, and The Madness of Making It
Being in a band isn’t just about music. For me, it was always about people. The kind of people…
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The Birth of The Ryan Calder Band: How a Festival Lineup and a Stubborn Dream Created RCB
About a year after Better Days hit the local shelves (and my parents’ CD player on repeat), the phone…
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Better Days: The Road to That First Album
Long before the world of online streaming, Patreon perks, and podcast mics, there were long nights, my Larrivée acoustic,…
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Heavenly peace
As I have said previously, I have been mulling over Christmas lyrics. Lines that I haven’t thought about for…
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Thinking about Christmas lyrics
Christmas in my family was always a big deal. Our family is big, and so it generally involved cousins…
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You just never know…
Do you ever wonder whether what you do means anything to anyone? I mean, in the grander scheme of…
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Perhaps it will be pleasing…
At the international school that we work at currently, a colleague of mine has an email signature with very…
