Vancouver Folk Music Festival Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver July 16, 2010-07-17 by Doug Heselgrave For many people living on the west coast of Canada, the folk festival season means that summer has finally arrived. Over the years the Vancouver, Calgary, […]
Review by Doug Heselgrave If you’ve been lamenting the demise of real R and B and wondering what happened to soul music, an end to your suffering is in sight. Salvation – as the Good Book says – often comes […]
I made this for you By The Mountains and The Trees Review by Doug Heselgrave The Mountains and the Trees is really a young musician named Jon James who hails from Newfoundland’s Atlantic coast. A talented guitar player who has […]
By Douglas Heselgrave I’ve been enjoying listening to the Cowboy Junkies’ latest CD, Renmin Park for the last month or two, but as there have already been a few fine reviews of the album posted on No Depression, rather than […]
By Pierre De Gaillande Review by Douglas Heselgrave The characters populating Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row have nothing on those brought to life in the songs of the French anarchist singer, George Brassens. The broken down idealists, pedophiles, and sad drunken […]
. Examining the fallout – Brian Dunn (Cosmic Dave’s Record Label) Review by Douglas Heselgrave Fallout indeed! With a woozy saloon piano threatening to throw the melodies off kilter, drenching feedback so thick it sounds painted on, and Brian Dunn’s […]
Reviews by Doug Heselgrave I didn’t plan it this way, but the three Canadian CDs that crossed my desk this week all feature songs by bands whose names begin with “W” Although each of them ostensibly falls under the category […]
La Difference By Salif Keita Review by Douglas Heselgrave Salif Keita is my favourite singer. In fact, I’d go as far as to say he’s the best singer alive in the world today, but I don’t want to start a […]
Origine Orients By Abaji (Harmonia Mundi) Review by Doug Heselgrave Abaji, the one man band from the Lebanese desert has delivered one of the year’s most immediate and off the cuff albums with the release of his fifth CD, Origine […]
‘In person and On Stage – John Prine ‘Broken hearts and Dirty Windows: the songs of John Prine’ – various artists Reviews by Doug Heselgrave John Prine’s songs have insinuated themselves so deeply in our collective memories over the last […]
