Q TV from CBC Radio has a new (?) series where they get their guests to explain how to play one of their hits. Here's Hawksley Workman being entertaining as always in explaining how to play “Safe & Sound”:
When I was in England in 1995, this song (and the album it appeared on) were consistently rated at or near the top of the “best of” lists for that year by the NME, Melody Maker and Q.
The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades. Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd […]
So yeah…I was trying to think of a good clip to feature for Music Monday now that it's Freedom to Read Week. I thought about posting Elvis' infamous early Milton Berle appearance which led to him only being filmed from the waist up when he later appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. But that's pretty […]
Hard to believe that today marks two years since Willie P. Bennett passed away. Fred Eaglesmith has apparently started covering a Willie P. song at the end of his concerts as a tribute to his long-time sideman…
I know I could get my entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week Month “Music Monday” clips out of this list but I'll post them as a group since that's how I found them.
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject. For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]
I don't listen to as much country music as I did in my smalltown youth but this song caught my ear when I heard it. I love how the first couple verses are just typical “I remember this, I remember that” cuteness but then the tone changes slightly leading to that whopper of a last […]
Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines. (Linked clip is in French but the description sums up that rivalry.) “Common People” was the defining song on the album (and the Shatner cover is all kinds […]
I'm going to reposition this song as our official SILS training theme!
