Category: MusicMonday

Music Monday – "But hell, I'm just a blind man on the plains/I drink my water when it rains/And live by chance among the lightning strikes"

I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find. But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit

Music Monday – "Outside my window/I listen to the rain/And the sounds of the passin' cars/And the waves on English Bay"

We're back from our trip (actually, have been back since last Thursday night but I was enjoying my blog holiday too much to start posting right away.)  But

Music Monday – "The Golden Rim Motor Inn/Soft water and a colour TV/Can’t afford the luxury"

You probably shouldn’t base your motel selections on twenty year old Tragically Hip songs but when they end up having views like this… …you should just send Gord

Music Monday – "When nobody else would stay/I would/When nobody else would pray/I would"

[Edit: Seeing some reports that the taping is on June 14 and the show will be broadcast on June 18.  I always thought Letterman taped around suppertime for

Music Monday – "There she goes again/Mixing melody with a memory/She's got a song for everything/Everywhere she's been, everyone she's pleased"

iTunes Canada has a free single of the week and this week happens to be local Regina indy buzz band, Library Voices, who are sort of a western

Tuesday Tunes – "From the happy/Day I met you/Made a bet/I was gonna get you"

This is my favourite song from my favourite 8-track in my parent's collection when I was growing up.  (Ah, K-Tel, is there anything you couldn't do?) 

Music Monday – (For Obvious Reasons, I Won't Put a Lyrical Excerpt From This Clip As a Teaser)

Joke or art or both?  (I'm in the “bit of both” category myself.) With helpful introductory and closing commentary, it's definitely worth watching the whole thing though I

Music Monday – Scallops, Anyone?

I'd never heard of a scalloped fretboard before but apparently it leads to music sounding something like this…

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