Friday August 21, 2009
first ever solo performance at Folkway Music
Americana music multi-force has performed with Eliza Gilkyson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Mary Gautier, Emmy Lou Harris and Robert Plant. i also just saw his name in a Slaid Cleaves album
As a producer, he helps bringout the best in musicians. As a singer songwriter, he belts out dark humour and an bright honesty that made for a mesmerizing show.
Some kind of bass pedal thing for the right foot, and amped board for the left.
Really awesome songs. Have you been listening on his MYspace? That is Patty G (on tracks from his last album) and his songs are great. Cool instrumentation too.
His stories and live personae were awesome. Will go see him again EVERY chance I get.
Would be nice to go fishing together too, ha.
Or maybe I should just go fishin' with the nice date that took me out to take in such a GREAT show. It was great when we could sing along to the last few numbers... its been so long since he 'n me made music together! I kept thinking all night how his music is the spittin' image of Gurf's ha.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Aimee Mann
Discovering a beautiful booklet by noted Guelph indie comic book artist, SETH, inside Aimee Mann’s Lost In Space CD made her my new personal hero. Let’s hear it for the surprising coolness factor of a strong female role model in the male dominated, non traditional art practices of song writing and comics. Especially since Mann does it independently. Her label SuperEgo Records is an archetype for success outside the traditional record biz model. Lost in Space is a sad collection of 11 songs linked by the recurring topics of drugs and superheroes. With quirky, girlie vocals, Mann speaks, as always, for the terminally fucked up, and renders complicated melodies with complex lyrics, in unique and challenging song structures. Lost in Space is a universal, unisex masterpiece well worth exploring. Okay, so I’m peddling addiction. I’m also pushing a sweet success story. And I do hope this proves to be your gateway record, a gateway to the harder stuff of our new hero and guys like Mann.
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was it 2001? i was in manhattan, long before moving to guelph... this was the first music review i ever wrote or had published. Lola named it shotgun review of the year, and they were an award winning magazine so I was very p r o u d.
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was it 2001? i was in manhattan, long before moving to guelph... this was the first music review i ever wrote or had published. Lola named it shotgun review of the year, and they were an award winning magazine so I was very p r o u d.
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