sarah harmer’s “captive”
gregor | July 28th, 2010 - 4:20 pm
sarah harmer is one of those artists that i have no idea how i got into. if i didnt know any better i would say that it was song silver road which also featured gordon downie, but i know i was into her way before that pairing. there was a time when i would walk into a record store on a tuesday and just pick up any new release that looked interesting. that very well may be the case here. man, i miss those days.
regardless, sarah has a lovely new record out called oh little fire which was released last month, i believe, on zoe records. one thing i truly appreciate about ms harmer and her music, is that none of her records sound the same. sure, its the same lovely voice, but musically they vary from folky/pop, bluegrass, and with her latest more of a rocking vibe, or at least as “rocking” as a sarah harmer can be. her lovely voice, great lyrics are all still intact, just the music has changed. i like it quite a bit, although i may prefer her bluegrass stuff more, surprisingly, which can be heard on i’m a mountain. either way, you cannot go wrong with any harmer release.
gord downie & the country of miracles’ “the east wind”
gregor | July 27th, 2010 - 12:58 pm
i rarely question, or second guess stuff i post, but when it comes to certain artists, who are controlled by majors, it makes me rethink my position. sometimes though, i just really dont care. the worst thing thats gonna happen is that they tell me to take it down. big whup!
with that all said, my main man, gord downie of the tragically hip is back with a new record entitled the grand bounce. its not a gordon downie record, but a gord downie & the country of miracles record, fyi. at this point, the man and his music should need no introduction and/or explanation. just accept that he’s one of the best songwriters of our time, assume the record is gonna follow suit, and in this case all of this is true.
not sure if its on sale in the states yet, as amazon is selling as an import
the swim drink fish music club
gregor | November 14th, 2009 - 10:23 am
looking at the list of artists, and committed artists, this is very tempting and ten bucks for a year is pretty much a steal. to top it all off, gord downie and the sadies are the featured artist of the month offering up a cover of randy newman’s “louisiana, 1927.” here’s the info, taken straight from the press release, on the swim drink fish music club and a few tracks from club below that.
the swim drink fish music club is an online music and audio experience @ swim drink fish music developed by lake ontario waterkeeper in collaboration with other waterkeeper organizations across canada. bringing together artists, activists, and citizens who care about clean water, the swim drink fish music club invites people to become members and celebrate the cub’s exclusive and rare music while at the same time contributing to the fight for swimmable, drinkable, fishable water in their community.
new featured exclusive songs are created by artists who care about clean water and uploaded once a month. artists such as broken social scene, sarah harmer, bill frisell, gord downie, chris brown, kate fenner, stars, dave bidini, bruce cockburn and tony scherr have all contributed exclusive songs to swim, drink, fish, music’s predecessor “at the barricades: volume 1″ in the past and are founding members of the club.
artists confirmed for upcoming features include, apostle of hustle, attack in black, emma lee, ghost bees, gord downie w/ the sadies, tony dekker of great lake swimmers, holy fuck, land of talk, matt & jill barber, neko case, ohbijou, and wintersleep as well as artists such as brent randall, brian borcherdt, contrived, green go, immaculate machine paper moon, royal wood and julie fader.
in addition to the featured songs, swim drink fish music club membership provides other great material:
- rare tracks from up-and-coming indie artists
- episodes of living at the barricades, the weekly radio program produced by lake ontario waterkeeper and broadcast around southern ontario. many of the music club members are frequent guests on the show.
- a made-for-canada edition of robert f. kennedy, jr.’s ring of fire program, broadcast on air america radio in the united states.
the $10 annual membership fee allows unlimited access to the website for one year. members can download the songs and play them on any portable music device. all told, members receive more than 50 songs a year. plus radio programs. plus event invitations. plus more.
every song has its story.
down with safe by paper moon
angels rioting against the nothing by contrived
until we meet again by emma lee
spend an afternoon with the tragically hip
gregor | February 15th, 2009 - 5:19 pmnew orleans is sinking
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZwm_OKh6bw]
little bones
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K43ZriYuXyo]
nautical disaster
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpr-m9D79gE]
scared – just the song and title screen
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gO-OYUKzG4]
wheat kings – fan made vid
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIaBcfL6vU]
fully completely
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UujWyDeL0Lg]
grace, too – in order to get ackroyd to do snl, he insisted that the hip be the musical guest
nautical disaster
