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Promise of the Real - Anthony Logerfo, Tato Melgar, Lukas Nelson and Corey McCormick

DH: You’ve talked a lot about what your new band is all about. Do the other people you play with share the same goals? Are these people you’ve developed a real chemistry with?

LN: Yeah, T… Continue

Promise of the Real – buzzing with Lukas Nelson Part One

The Burnaby Roots and Blues Festival, August 14, 2010

by Doug Heselgrave

On one of the hottest days of an already scorching summer, Lukas Nelson and his band ‘Promise of the Real’ played at the Burnaby Roots and Blues Festival at De… Continue

by Douglas Heselgrave


It's easy to get cynical when a rock star tries to act or paint. There are so many examples of misguided attempts to cross over into another medium that they don't even warrant a mention. I'm sure you have your own favourite disasters.

So, when Bob Dylan's first Drawn Blank series of sketches came out in book form a decade or so ago, I thought it was nothing more than an attempt to extract the last few dollars from rabid completists. But, over the years more of his art h… Continue

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Review by Doug Heselgrave

I’ve been sent more Leonard Cohen material to review in the last five years than in the twenty years that preceded them. The man I first met in 1984 when he was in Vancouver to publicize his new volume of poetry, The Book of Mercy, seemed genuinely touched that a small… Continue

"Canada is as rich and layered and as fucked up as any human being”

An on again off again conversation with Doug Heselgrave

Like many people, I have had a lifelong fascination with the Yukon. Growing up in Canada, my childhood hours were often spent reading Farley Mowatt’s dra… Continue