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Music Monday – “I don’t mind the strain of a hurricane, it comes around every June/The high black water, the devil’s daughter/She’s hard, and she’s cold and she’s mean/But nobody taught her, it takes a lot of water/To wash away New Orleans”

“Hurricane” Castellos (Levon Helm cover)

¶ Posted 14 October 2024 § News § PopCulture § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, music

Music Monday – “This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon/No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues”

Happy birthday to one of my favourite singer/songwriters… “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)” – John Mellencamp

¶ Posted 07 October 2024 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Music Monday – “We took their land, dilute their nations/Force them on to reservations/Corporate interest won’t stop there/Take the trees and leave this homeland bare, oh no”

“Homelands” – Jack’s Rake (Spirit of the West cover) Original:

¶ Posted 30 September 2024 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Daylight licked me into shape/I must have been asleep for days/And moving lips to breathe her name/I opened up my eyes/And found myself alone”

“Just Like Heaven” – Eddie Vedder

¶ Posted 23 September 2024 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – Living Colour/Extreme Double Bill at Casino Regina

Instead of a single video, I’ll post a couple samples from two of my favourite bands from high school/early college years that are playing a double-bill at Casino Regina tonight, an offering enticing enough to get me to leave the house on a Monday night *and* stay up past my bedtime! Living Colour probably influenced […]

¶ Posted 16 September 2024 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Many people coming from miles around/To see you play hockey when the sun go down/Maybe someday your name will be in lights/Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight”

George Canyon with a beautiful rendition of 'Johnny B. Goode' at the vigil for Johnny Gaudreau tonight ??? (via @NHLFlames) pic.twitter.com/3nQf7Nm17r — Gino Hard (@GinoHard_) September 5, 2024 “Johnny B. Goode” – George Canyon

¶ Posted 09 September 2024 § PopCulture § Sad § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: hockey

“Ketchup” Post

Haven’t blogged for a few days so instead of doing individual back-dated posts, I’ll just do it all at once to catch up… Throwback Thursday (August 22) Me with my Maternal Grandma (no date but early 90s?) Friday Fun Link (August 23) Perchance AI Image Generator Saturday Snap (August 24) They removed the old, crumbling […]

¶ Posted 27 August 2024 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Word of the trouble spread around/One day a man came to my town/I was in the kitchen when my Pa let him in/He shook my hand, said, “Son, the Klan’s your friend””

Going through a Bruce Springsteen phase right now (“Born in the USA” was the first cassette I ever owned so talk about full circle!) Here’s a wild unreleased demo I came across via a book about the making of that seminal album… “The Klansman” – Bruce Springsteen