Ode to the Season Ode to the Season, is a seasonal/Christmas song I wrote in 2018. To get the vibe, I imagined something light and lyrical that Carolers would sing. I love the holiday season. I’m wishing you a blessed and peaceful Christmas, free from […]

The Holly in the Windy Hedge This  song is available on all streaming services: Listen on Spotify. Listen on Apple. I wrote this piece as a Christmas song and The Holly in the Windy Hedge, is in *minor tone of my favorite traditional English Christmas […]

Shallow Shallow, by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, is a performance from their new film, A Star is Born — also directed by Bradley Cooper. While I haven’t seen the movie yet, Bradley Cooper sounds really good. One has to wonder if he might be […]

The Last of Us II To introduce The Last of Us Part II at the 2018 E3 gaming convention, Gustavo Santaolalla performed the new central theme from soundtrack. It was a great performance. At the time, the piece was called The Last of Us (Cycles). […]

Opening If you’ve been a reading my blog for any length of time, it’s not hard to figure out that I’m a Gustavo Santaolalla superfan. It all started with the Brokeback Mountain score: acoustic guitar, empty space, minimalism. I had never heard anything like it.  […]

Lady Bird The Lady Bird soundtrack is from multi-instrumentalist composer Jon Brion. Brion’s niche is in creating “unsentimental” scores that fit hand in glove with indie drama/comedies. The music bounces along — like a Beatles song without vocals — never interfering with the scene. Contrast […]

Billie Eilish Billie Eilish is a 16 year-old Los Angeles based singer/songwriter. Her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, is Billie’s songwriting partner and producer. Her song, ocean eyes, is just beginning to hit with my young guitar students. I’ve taught this song a dozen times already […]

Free download on SoundCloud. Priscilla Mojica Priscilla is a 23 year-old singer/songwriter from Palm Springs who is currently based in San Francisco. She got in touch with me about a possible collaboration a few months ago. I checked out her YouTube channel and was blown […]

I love You Too Much “I Love You Too Much” is a song by Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla, written for the 2014 animated film The Book of Life. It is a beautiful and haunting ballad about the power of love and the importance of family. […]