dates
Next winter tour dates are shaping up like this. Starting March: Vancouver, Victoria, Duncan (or Lasquiti), Campbell River (or Nanaimo), Sointula, Powell River, Sechelt, Burnaby (fly to Winnipeg) Qu’appelle Valley, […]
Bob Wiseman
the light that has lighted the world
There was once a man who sang the blues. He’d lived hard years dirty bars, long highways, lovers left, debts never loosened their grip. Night after night, he sang on […]
usual suspects
The brilliant line up scene in The Usual Suspects, was a blooper reel. The director was pissed off and thought the actors screwed up but the editor realized it worked. […]
boys are getting stinko
Soon the weather will be changing. Sudbury was incredible converted theatre formerly Gothic church. Beautiful sight lines. Best piano so far a C7. Eighty people is impressive but a little […]
the study of consciousness
To wonder about consciousness is to get tangled inside one’s own awareness, to play a kind of Sherlock Holmes with the endless inner dialogue that never pauses, never lets go. […]
can’t unsee
I find it very hard these days to make sense out of what people mean when they say right wing or left wing. Once upon a time, it never seemed […]
key of grace
The band was called Late Prophet. On tour again, small-town churches, rec rooms, dark bars that still smelled like decades of Budweiser. Their press kit said they played “post-folk spirituals […]
record company success
Once, in a city of traffic reports, a young man named Simon Bell started a label. Dust and Echoes, was what he called it because music felt like that to […]
mean customer
I looked around online to find examples of Donna Lypchuck’s Necrofiles. I met her once, it was at the Tranzac. was doing volunteer work but I never knew her well. […]
as if nothing happened
In Thunder Bay, where Lake Superior broods like a secret no one can name, there was once a man called Mr. Frosinone, who played harmonica every Thursday outside Robins Donuts […]