It was a riveting image that was seen around the world. The photograph of the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, a small Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach that gave a human face to the almost incomprehensible suffering […]
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Prairie singer-songwriter’s second Steve Dawson produced album, ‘I Was So Fond of You’ is a heartbreaker By Douglas Heselgrave There aren’t very many singers like Matt Patershuk around anymore. There probably weren’t very many to begin with. It’s true that, […]
Review By Douglas Heselgrave It’s not so easy writing about nothing. I woke up this morning at 4:49 AM thinking about Patti Smith. Or, not thinking about her so much as the line above that opens ‘M Train’ delivered to […]
Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real – live at the Hard Rock Café, Vancouver Canada. From the very first time I heard Lukas Nelson play guitar in his dad’s band more than a decade ago, I was hooked […]
by Douglas Heselgrave Sometimes, it’s difficult to figure out why a particular piece of music affects us in the way it does. On the surface there may be nothing especially remarkable about it, nothing to distinguish it from so many […]
By Douglas Heselgrave In purely visual terms, there has never been a better argument put forward for the continued existence of the physical CD format than ‘Orient-Occident II: Hommage a la Syrie’ provides. The idea that the packaging, artwork and […]
It’s been nearly forty years since I first heard an old Dave Van Ronk record at a friend’s house near my old high school, and it’s probably been about a dozen years since I’ve given his music much thought at […]
Riverside Jazz Reissues – Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson Mulatku Astake ‘Sketches of Ethiopia’ Peggy Lee ‘Invitation’ Madeleine Peyroux ‘The Blue Room’ By Douglas Heselgrave It’s the middle of […]
‘The Living Room Sessions Volume 2’ Review by Doug Heselgrave Taking the plastic covering off of ‘The Living Room Sessions Volume 2’ CD was like opening those Christmas presents so painstakingly wrapped by my grandmother just days before she died […]
As a west coast Canadian, bluegrass has always seemed like an exotic musical form. When I hear it, I think of mountains, forests, rivers, and a rural lifestyle that has long past and gone. Artists like Ralph Stanley and the […]
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