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Music Monday – “I’m just a singer of simple songs/I’m not a real political man/I watch CNN, but I’m not sure I can tell you/The difference in Iraq and Iran” or “Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list/And the Statue of Liberty started shakin’ her fist/And the eagle will fly man, it’s gonna be hell/When you hear mother freedom start ringin’ her bell”

Is it possible to track the polarization of American politics to two very different country songs released in the wake of 9/11 – one contemplative and questioning while the other is aggressive and angry? Not saying this is the reason politics is so polarized but definitely a reflection of a moment where American politics got […]

Music Monday – “And Cody says, ‘He didn’t raise the dead’ Says ‘religion’s just a trick/To keep hard-working folks in line”/He says it makes his stomach sick.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4uiCvXYpaQ “Cody” – The Killers

¶ Posted 06 September 2021 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, music

Music Monday – “I was born in a cross-fire hurricane/And I howled at my ma in the driving rain/But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas”

“Jumping Jack Flash” (Charlie Watts isolation footage) – Rolling Stones

¶ Posted 30 August 2021 § News § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Well I looked in the sky today/Didn’t see a single plane/All my life there’s been streaks through the sky/Yeah I looked in the sky today”

“Another Day in the Life” – Cole Chaney

¶ Posted 23 August 2021 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm/The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won’t get snagged/The bells are ringing through the town again/The children look up, all they hear is sky-blue bells ringing”

Live music is slowly coming back including Jason Isbell covering R.E.M. at Red Rocks the other night. (Not to mention, that same night, I got to see a local artist covering an Isbell song at the Nickle Lake beer gardens which was just as enjoyable!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alO-SjJrKwE “Driver 8” – Jason Isbell (R.E.M. Cover)

¶ Posted 02 August 2021 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, music

Music Monday – “He’s brown as a berry from ridin’ the prairie/And he sings with an ol’ western drawl/Ooh-ooh-ooh-doo-di-di/Singing his cattle call”

“Cattle Call” – Eddy Arnold RIP Lloyd Thompson (1942-2021)

¶ Posted 26 July 2021 § Family § Photo § Sad § Saskatchewan § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Walking through town is quite scary/It’s not very sensible either/A friend of a friend he got beaten/He looked the wrong way at a policeman”

This song has been going through my head all day for some reason. (In completely unrelated news, Go Habs Go!) “I Predict A Riot” – Kaiser Chiefs

¶ Posted 05 July 2021 § PopCulture § Sports § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

Music Monday – “Every night, I say a prayer/In the hopes that’s there’s a Heaven.”

I don’t think Pace has a theme song for his grade eight grad today. In my hometown, I went to elementary school until grade six then to high school in grade seven and I didn’t have a grade six grad theme song either (that I remember.). But it’s got me thinking back to my own […]

¶ Posted 28 June 2021 § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, parents

Music Monday – “There’s a great hot desert/Down in Mexicali/And if you don’t have water/Boy, you’d better not go/Tequila won’t get you/Across that desert/To Evangelina/In old Mexico”

https://youtu.be/3HlDN4JMCY8 “Evangelina” – Colter Wall (Hoyt Axton Cover)

¶ Posted 21 June 2021 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “Whereas some of us weren’t always fair/To the Native kid on borrowed skates/Chippy Goolies and Ukrainians/In the corners with our elbows up”

Goolie was originally a derogatory term referring to people of Icelandic descent who settled in Manitoba. The derivation of the word remains a mystery. The most plausible origin I encountered while researching When Falcons Fly was that the first Icelandic settlers had thick Norse accents and pronounced the word “goalie” as “goolie.” Interestingly, the word […]