I have to admit I was pretty worried when I got this disc to review: Joe Nolan’s messy tuft of hair and Dylanesque grimace staring up from the cover told me I could be in for another version of the […]
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The first thing I thought when I put Jadea Kelly’s Eastbound Platform album on was how much she sounded like fellow Canadian songstress Sarah Slean. They have the same vocal quality, a sort of ethereal fragility, and a thin, but […]
I’ve been watching the media blitz that has accompanied the release of Jim Cuddy’s third solo album, Skyscraper Soul. I’m a bit fascinated by the combined old-school/new-innovative approach that Warner Records is taking. There’s the typical television and radio appearances […]
Back in 2004, I interviewed cowboy singer Tim Hus, just as he was beginning to make a name for himself throughout Western Canada. I thought I would publish some of that interview here. Tim Hus is one of the […]
Kathleen Edwards occasionally announces a show in Toronto last minute, not advertising far beyond her Facebook page, and sometimes without any advance tickets. So I was surprised to find a pretty short line-up when I got to the Dakota last […]
There’s been a lot of celebration for Blue Rodeo’s seminal album, Five Days in July, this summer. This was initiated by the Winnipeg Folk Festival, who asked the band to play the album in its entirety when they appeared at […]
Ever since John Lomax started collecting them in the early 1900s, cowboy songs have contributed as equally, if not more, to the North American fascination with the cowboy as dime novels and western films. The tunes that described a mysterious […]
I was all ready to review k d lang’s set at the Calgary Folk Fest when she closed the Saturday night show two weeks ago. I figured if nothing else, I should, as a fellow (now transplanted) Albertan (one who […]
It’s taken me nearly a week to get over how soaked I got at last week’s Calgary Folk Fest. Granted, I don’t get along well with rain, but in 17 years of attending the festival, and even in the week […]
Hey Canadians, and those interested in Canadiana: Our Canadian Folk Music Online magazine went this week, and old issues from 2000-2009 can be accessed here. I have an article in the latest issue on the Calgary Folk Festival, and I’m […]
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