Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Marion, VA -- The award winning PBS series Song of the Mountains presents another concert at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia on Saturday August 2nd. This concert is being taped for later broadcast on PBS and the series is airing nationally on over 150 PBS outlets. ...
You Ain't No Picasso (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Oh man, I was just listening to this song the other day! I mentally filed it away in the category of “if I’m ever in a great band, I’ll cover this song.” Luckily for me the Grand Archives are are great band and they think similarly to me. Big thanks to Bradley’s Almanac for this [...]
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Happy Canada Day all. Here are two of my favorite Canadian songs. Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers (forgive the Due South screen shots, unless you like Due South) and The Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot. Both share a love for this vast country and capture its long history in just a few minutes. Enjoy and don't eat too much today. Update: Btw. I have heard the Canadian Railroad Trilogy...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Nashville, TN -- Bluegrass band The Chapmans return to radio this week with a brand new single. "The Redwood Hill" was written by singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. "When we were younger we used to listen to the Country Gentlemen do this song," comments Jeremy Chapman. "We wanted to pay homage to their version with the solos and the arrangement, while putting The Chapmans' harmonies and lead vocal...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Chapmans are hoping to use the leverage of viral marketing to help promote their next recording project. They have a new single release, which is being offered as a free digital download online. The track is a remake of Redwood Hill, the Gordon Lightfoot song made into a bluegrass classic by the Country Gentlemen in [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The P-I's fly on the wall listens in as Mariners president Chuck Armstrong tries to motivate the ballclub during a pre-game meeting in the Shea Stadium clubhouse.
Above Average Jane (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Tennessee Williams wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire." Steve Goodman wrote a song about a train called "They City of New Orleans" (made famous by Arlo Guthrie). Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about a boat called "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." However, Willie Nelson has not, to my knowledge, come up with a song about biodiesel. And I don't think anyone has written anything artistic about hybrid...
Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Grand Archives kind of look like Lumberjacks (skinny lumberjacks) and make gentle, harmony-laden music that would be perfect for maple syrup commercials. "Whether it's flapjacks, waffles or for the Master Cleanse, make sure your syrup is real Vermont Maple." I...
A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
I am not much on politics, however, I love me some Tim Russert and HATE to hear that he died this morning of a heart attack. Dadgum. Danny Davis, leader of the Nashville Brass died yesterday in Nashville. One of my favorite records as a kid…was Danny Davis and the NB doing “Running Bear.” Shut [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
"Renowned Canadian guitarist Laurice Milton "Red" Shea, who helped define the groundbreaking musical styles of legendary Canadian folk artists Gordon Lightfoot and Ian and Sylvia Tyson and others, died Tuesday morning after being diagnosed two weeks ago with pancreatic cancer. He was 70."...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest Great Lakes freighter of it's time and the last and largest to be lost on the Great Lakes. The only thing I knew about the ship was from Gordon Lightfoot's song, which I actually learned to play back in the day.Until I read this article about a ceremony that is planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The famed 222-metre ore...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
There was a case of party politics in more than one sense during Luminato's opening-night bash at the Royal Ontario Museum on Friday. And the reception provided proof that the two-party system doesn't always work smoothly.
Right Angles (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Those wacky Canadians are covering over historical murals in the British Columbia legislative building because “some people find the colonial depictions of aboriginal people to be offensive.” Seems the murals, titled “Justice,” “Enterprise,” “Labour” and “Courage” are just too aggressively, well, European, for the tastes of the Canuck P.C.-compliance brigades. I’ve wondered when the insanity of [...]...
Matablog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
(Janet and Mike patiently listen to Bob Nastanovich tell them about the time he met Dudley Doright and Gordon Lightfoot at the Canadian border. Picture swiped from Stephen Malkmus.com) In addition to headlining Coney Island’s Siren Festival on July 19, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks will be making the following north of the border appearances : July [...]
LibraryTavern (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
I heard this song this morning (performed by Gordon Lightfoot, but I can't find a video to post of Gordon Lightfoot singing this song) and the lyrics fit my positive mood. Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com. lyrics : When I woke this mornin’, something inside of me told me this would be my day I heard the morning train, I felt the wind change, too many times I’m on my way Come on sunshine,...
