Lee Harvey Osmond – The Folk Sinner Julie Doiron – so many days The weather outside’s been awful, dark and hurting for weeks now. I’ve had to walk away from the leak in the basement, the car engine’s knocking and […]
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After more than 40 years in the music business, the Canadian blues icon has recorded ‘I Hear The Wind In The Wires’ – and it may be the best record of his career by Douglas Heselgrave “I’ve thought about this […]
Two new CDs from Germany and the Central Asian Silk Road challenge our ideas of what ‘roots music’ is REQUIEM FOR A PINK MOON – an Elizabethan tribute to Nick Drake By Joel Frederiksen During his short lifetime, the British […]
We Walk The Line – A celebration of the music of Johnny Cash – Various Artists The Greatest: Number Ones, Country Classics, Gospel Songs and Duets – Johnny Cash Reviews by Douglas Heselgrave Considering the paces Johnny Cash put his […]
“Woody is just Woody. Thousands of people do not know he has any other name. He is just a voice and a guitar. He sings the songs of a people and I suspect that he is, in a way, that […]
Tim O’Brien, Tara Linhardt, Danny Knicely, Abigail Washburn, Tony Trischka, Buddhiman Gandharba, Jagat B. Gandharba and many more….. Review by Douglas Heselgrave Globalization has a lot to answer for. Walking in downtown Vancouver the other day, I could have bought […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave I get so much mail every day that sometimes when I hear the postman coming, I want to run in the other direction. I’ve got stacks of CDs that arrived months ago that I haven’t even […]
By Douglas Heselgrave It’s the middle of the afternoon and for the past few hours Willie Nelson has been talking to reporters about his new album, ‘Heroes.’ For a writer, it’s not the ideal situation, and as I bided my […]
By Doug Heselgrave Staring Contest by Reid Jamieson I’ve been completely sideswiped by Reid Jamieson and the songs on his new record and I’m trying to figure out why. I’m pretty crusty when it comes to music and songs that […]
just talked with Willie Nelson. I was curious about his most recent single. Me: So, what would happen if I rolled you up and smoked you when you died – like in the song. What kind of high would I […]
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