Thanks to Paul Kerr for offering Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder’s version of ‘2:10 Train’ as last week’s Chain Gang track, he couldn’t have left me with an easier open goal for this week. Train songs […]
Troubadour cranks up the volume for raucous 7th. ‘Cast Iron Songs and Torch Ballads‘ is Memphis native Dan Montgomery’s 7th album in a music-making career of 20-plus years. It’s a pretty straight-ahead blue-collar roots rockin’ record, […]
Memory and the memories that are associated with it is a strange and wonderful thing right? This ‘First Time’ series is all about memory and memories and in it we have shared in of some our […]
Mayor of Melody Town, Ontario re-elected for the 17th time. Americana songwriting has a history. Perhaps more than any other genre of popular song, the annals of whatever it is that presents as Americana are littered […]
Live music can be a joyous and cathartic experience. For those of us who live in its thrall, it can move us in ways like no other artistic endeavour or leisure pastime has the power to […]
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