It was 17 years ago this past week when I got into a gold 1980 Chevy Impala to go for a ride someplace with a girl I had just met a day or 2 previous. I had been in that car before (the night we […]
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The Replacements – Valentine
Monday, April 5th, 2010Steve Earle – Someday
Wednesday, March 31st, 20101986 was a weird year for me. I had left home and was trying to figure out what being out alone in the world meant, and basically had no idea. About anything. I was NOT a country music fan – there was lots of that […]
Big Star – The Ballad of El Goodo
Thursday, March 18th, 2010I can’t put into words what Alex Chilton and Big Star have meant to me over the years, what kind of influence his music has had on me – by osmosis at first, through the Replacements, Posies, Teenage Fanclub, etc. – and then directly, from the albums #1 Record, Radio City and Third/Sister Lovers.
Prince – Starfish and Coffee
Thursday, March 18th, 2010When I was a young pup, I was a dancin’ fool. Yup. You heard it right – me. A dancin’ fool. Every chance I got, I would bust a move, anytime, anywhere. I was even a member of a breakdance troupe for a while, called […]
Chris Page – Hello, Danger Bay
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Wow. What a week (and a half). I feel so incredibly guilty about being late with this – it’s like calling in sick to work to go race go-karts with yr buddies, or something. Except that I don’t have a job to call in sick […]
Paul Westerberg – It’s A Wonderful Lie
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Wow. 8 weeks in. My friend Dave was impressed when I did it 2 weeks in a row, so he must be ecstatic now ( his mood on this night will have nothing to do with the amazing OT win this aft, this is all […]
The Seventy Sevens – The Lust, the Flesh, the Eyes and the Pride of Life
Sunday, February 21st, 2010As a kid, I was crazy about rock and roll. Not unlike most of you, I would imagine, but most definitely unlike most of you, my dad was a farmer 6 days a week and a Church of Christ minister 7 days a week. Old […]
Teenage Fanclub – About You
Sunday, February 14th, 2010I’ve always been a sucker for a pop song. I think it’s because I found solace in my early years in AM Top 40 radio (see last week’s post). I’m not ashamed to admit that when ‘Uptown Girl’ comes on in the Safeway, I’m singing […]
Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown
Sunday, February 7th, 2010When I was a kid on the farm in Northern Saskatchewan, I didn’t know all that much about the outside world. My main sources of information were the CBC and 630 CHED (the top-40 AM station) out of Edmonton. CBC was the only television we […]
Wagbeard – TNT
Monday, January 25th, 2010(I wrote this last night, but due to tech trauma, was unable to post until this morning – good thing SOMEONE in this household knows a thing or 2 about a thing or 2) This past weekend, our campus/community radio station, CJSW, celebrated 25 years […]
