artist Jimmy Wright Jr.

Yes it absolutely would be amazing and an honour to have my song on the playlist cd. One of the first songs I wrote was called Earthpower. With lyrics "you've got to listen to the wind, and feel the power of the tide, I only hope it's not too late, before the sun decides to hide". I remember hearing the band Spirits song Nature's Way and recording my own version. A former manager of mine played it for some high school students to get a reaction as a test marketing project. It has the line "it's nature's way of telling you something's wrong". Some students kept asking "what is nature's way"? They really yearned to know. Don't we all? Don't we want the earth to teach us? Tell us what it's thinking and feeling? The earth is so old and wise and we're so young and ...well...busy. Another song I was happy to hear in the mainstream was When a Tree Falls by Bruce Cockburn.

It's fantastic to have a stage for these important songs. I'm not a huge fan of contests. But I do them. At work and play. We listen to radio 3 alot at the store and we can always count on hearing some good new music. The contest seems to be under the radar. I hope more media picks up on it and helps get the message out. Good luck everyone.

Yes. We are the environment. I forget now where I first heard that phrase but I loved it instantly. Probably from David Suzuki. I am very excited to have entered the CBC Environmental song playlist. I couldn't get a song on there fast enough. I've always loved music that made me think as well as feel. Sometimes it seems like it's getting harder and harder to put the same feelings for our earth into lyrics in new ways. But I keep trying anyways. Music has changed and influenced my life before so I want to be a part of that. The question of where are all the protest songs is valid. They do exist but we're not likely going to hear them on the radio. It occasionally happens when someone like Bruce Cockburn hits his mark and produces a song with a message that fits nicely into a mainstream format. Kudos to the radio programmers that took the initiative to play them. Where are those programmers now? Has music radio become ad radio? Everything is so overly formatted and genred to death. I used to love hearing Burt Bacharach followed by Steppenwolf. I don't need a degree in marketing to know sameness sells. But it's Boring! I truely believe that radio is best when it surprizes. A left turn now and then if you will.