I thought of a particular friend when I put Doug Prescott’s album on, but it took until the second song to figure out why. There’s something reminiscent of ’70s southern rock in the first track, “Happy Enough Song”, but I […]
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What’s wrong with everybody this week? I have been encountering angry, selfish people everywhere I go. My horoscope was not wrong when it said “You have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by small-minded people; shortsighted […]
The field of music cognition is growing. No need to worry, folks, a bunch of psychologists have finally figured out why we all like music. Hooray! I have been waiting 33 years for science to tell me why I feel […]
*This series will feature interviews with members of the Calgary and area roots music scene. Calgary is one of the main cities in Alberta, a province in western Canada. Interviews were conducted as part of the research for my dissertation, […]
Leader of the local country scene, Tom Phillips generates awe and envy wherever he goes in Calgary. Other country singers are persistent in their efforts to reach his level of success, and his audience treats him like the local celebrity […]
If we all knew what made a great song, we’d be giggling and rolling around in piles of royalty money instead of speculating on it in blogs on a roots music website. But I like to think I occasionally come […]
I read this article on the Junos, the Canadian version of the Grammys, last week. Every year, there’s a long lead up to the awards that oscillates between Yay Canadian Music Rocks and Ugh, Canadian Music Is Terrible. Why does this […]
My friend has taken to introducing me as her “friend with a Ph.D. in music, but whenever I go to her house, she doesn’t have any music playing!” The other day, I was listening to an interesting program on CBC […]
When you begin the descent into the Calgary airport, you can see the brown prairies divided into neat, square parcels of land that eventually give way to empty roads, sprawling neighbourhoods, and a downtown core that rises in the centre […]
I always feel a little behind the times, and behind in my listening, but I did manage to find many albums that actually came out this year that made it into my regular rotation. Here they are: 10. Matt […]
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