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Best of 2012: The penitential hymn
A couple of years ago I walked out on Bob Dylan. I never imagined it would be possible. Some legends are legends for a reason and I’ve always been enamoured of Dylan. Admittedly I mostly get down with...
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Best of 2012 – Giving you my best sad face
It isn’t just The Beatles that get by with a little help from their friends. The concept of a “solo” artist is usually a misnomer; unless they’re Hayden Desser most musicians obviously don’t play...
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The Best Albums of 2012
So this took forever! I swear, I’m not entirely a procrastinator. Just mostly. I started working on this list back in November, before my daughter was born. Obviously it’s taken some time to put the...
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That’s where I’d love to begin
I suppose it’s natural that you’d start thinking about your death when someone tells the world you’ve passed away. The death of Canadian musical mainstay Hayden is one of two polar extremes considered...
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To clear your winter mind
Hey dudes. It’s time for me to put my money where my mouth is, friends. You’ll recall not long ago I declared that Regina’s Andy Shauf has created the finest Canadian album released in all of 2012....
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You were a miner for the art of old
The Junos are coming up this week in Regina. That probably has a lot of people wondering why they care. When the Gemini Awards came to Regina in 2007 I covered them for the radio station I work at. I...
View ArticleEyes so soft in a world so hard
Hats off once again to Brock Tyler. The Edmontonian has been a friend of this blog and a friend of a friend for the last several years. Last time we checked in he had just issued an absolutely...
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#RFF13 – Calypso Rose
~ Calypso Rose brings joy to the main stage (Photo by Colleen Book) One thing the Regina Folk Festival does a great job of is bringing in elder statesmen (and women) and giving them a chance to reach...
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Because you can’t own it
As you may recall from her barn-burning set at the Regina Folk Festival in August my first impression of Neko Case’s new material was that it was rather rockist. It turns out I was half-right. Case’s...
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Remember when our love was new
When I was a boy I really liked a girl named Jennifer. I pined for her in that curious way that 10 year olds do. I strolled the streets of our prairie town of Swift Current in the hopes that wandering...
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