Jim Bryson live in Halifax, Jan. 31, 2010.
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(with due respect to Doug Heselgrave who beat me to the punch with his excellent ND review, here’s my own take written last week and finally posted now …) Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco Press) The first time most […]
I know he never wrote a country song or played steel guitar, but he influenced generations of writers of all kinds. And to my mind, J is a sterling role model in his determination to create and share his work […]
A slice of Canadiana, the National Film Board of Canada’s Log Driver’s Waltz, as performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle. If the embedded player below doesn’t work (seems to be a compatibility issue), go directly to it here.
Alanis Morissette tells Spinner that she will cover the Willie Nelson/Julio Iglesias ditty “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before.” That’s bending both genres and genders. Read all about it here
I’ve had a crack at a list of new albums and reissues, but not everything musical that moved me in the past year was in long playing form. So here’s 20 other things, in no particular order. “The Seventh Seal” […]
A little taste of the fun last night at the Skydiggers’ annual holiday party at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto. Jessy Bell Smith has lately been joining the group onstage, and here is a sample of her tearing up Peter Cash’s […]
Here it is, arguably end of the decade but certainly end of the album era, sadly. Compiling 10 top albums and reissues seems almost quaint already, even if it is my preferred means of experiencing music. And so, here it […]
Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch (Acony) The end of a decade by nature puts one in a reflective mood (ask any newspaper assignment editor prepping retrospective features to pad the holiday editions). The request to name a favorite album […]
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