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