Ships running off course, lost sailors, broken hearts and blizzards, chilled bones and lonely inclement weather. Judy Collins’ Winter Stories, the fourth seasonally themed record of her career, is very far from being just another of her feel-good Christmas albums. […]
Anytime Neil Young plays with Crazy Horse, he’s just about guaranteed to alienate half of his fans and inspire an almost religious devotion in the other half. The music they make together is cranky, passionate, and impolite. Highly emotional rather […]
I am sure that you have been in this situation before. You have two friends and you love them both, but for almost completely different reasons. Taken individually, there’s no problem, but you worry about how it’d feel to see […]
Considering how long he’s been around, the extent to which Paul Simon has resisted giving into nostalgic impulses is admirable. A few Simon & Garfunkel reunions notwithstanding, Simon has rarely limited himself to revisiting and cashing in on the past […]
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 […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave I didn’t see this coming. My defences were down. I was caught off guard. It had been so long since I’d been genuinely surprised and uplifted by a record and could tell that I would love it all […]
An enthusiastic conversation with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux By Douglas Heselgrave I have loved The Grateful Dead’s music for decades and over the years had the good fortune to hear them in concert many times, but I never had the chance to experience the […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave In ‘Lila’, Robert Pirsig’s sequel to ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, the author spends a lot of time deconstructing the myth of the American cowboy and essentially comes to the conclusion that […]
I went to my first concert in the summer of 1973. It was a triple bill featuring Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bob Seger and Charlie Daniels. I wasn’t really a fan of any of the artists and would never have gone […]
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, […]
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