Patrick Ballantyne: An album of longing

This week Song Talk welcomed Patrick Ballantyne back to our studio. Patrick is a veteran songwriter and musician who has worked with many top-selling artists such as The Trews, Meredith Shaw and Big Sugar.

On this episode, Patrick brought in a few songs from his upcoming new release so our Song Talk audience got to hear the premieres of two tracks – Vicious in Your Vanity and Beneath Your Skin.

We talked with Patrick about:

* the origins of the songs on his new album

* the difficulty of writing lyrics

* his collaboration with Colin MacDonald from the Trews

* how to organize songs for an album

* the way lyrical inspiration changes as the songwriter ages

* Patrick-Ballantyne-Lyrics

* Patrick Ballantyne on WikiPedia