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  • Today’s double feature is the Carlton Showband. I do love a good sea shanty. You? We are drawing closer to the end of this project and I [...]

    Nothing Like A Newfoundlander

    December 29, 2012
  • Peter Paul and Mary!!! A Song will Rise and Moving. Two deliciously folksy albums. I just love PP&M. Don’t you? wiki: Peter, Paul and [...]

    Goin’ Down That Highway

    December 14, 2012
  • Joan Baez. What an earth lovin goddess of folk. How was that for cliche? Challenging to post her albums the day after a fabulous Nina Simone [...]

    From One Goddess to Another ~ Joan Baez I Heart You

    December 9, 2012
  • Did She Mention My Name? and Back Here on earth! Oh Gord, you know I love you. I think these may be the last two Gord albums in the collection [...]

    Too Silent to Be Real. or ~ Oh They Looked Into the Future and What Did They See?

    December 6, 2012
  • OCTOBER 4 Well, we had a kick ass summer that lasted on the BC rainforest coast until.. well ~ yesterday. Today she is raining. So bring me the [...]

    Bring Me Sunshine

    October 10, 2012
  • SEPTEMBER 26 Sacred Country and Western Songs by Texas Jim Roberston. I imagine he was the hot pick around the campfire with guitar. His story [...]

    The songs of Yester-Gay

    October 5, 2012
  • Howdy record blog folks. I find myself with an hour at work this am free. Just enough time to catchup on almost a week’s worth of record [...]

    They Can’t Take That Away From Me.

    September 21, 2012
  •   Oh Kris Kristofferson, you ignorant slut. Lol. (an old SNl reference there for those you wondering). Seriously though, i read once that [...]

    Me and Bobby McGee

    September 19, 2012
  • ; This was another album that I tried to love. She pretty much butchered every popular 60s/ early 70s folk song available. I tried to love her [...]

    A Suzanne Cover to Make Leonard Cohen Cringe.

    September 16, 2012
  • The Best of Gordon Lightfoot! You know how excited I get about a Gord album! This one I already had and my lovely father in law contributed it to [...]

    You can’t ask the woman to be faithful if you’re not going to be faithful to her.

    August 23, 2012
  • Let me open with “I’m totally not a fan of Bruce Cockburn’s music” but I think the man has done tons for Canada and the [...]

    a very awarded Canadian, that I’m not (but should be) into

    August 2, 2012
  • Honest Lullaby was an honest 1977 folk album brimming with one love. Her version of Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry was sad and lovely all at [...]

    Let Your Love Flow

    July 28, 2012
  • We take you to 1986 for another folk, 80s, rethrift Bob Dylan album. The album cover does get placed in the TOP 20 album cover art though. [...]

    knocked out loaded

    July 15, 2012
  •  I tried so hard to like this album. I know many would consider it a sin to to say anything ill of Dylan, but this album blew. There were two [...]

    Infidels

    July 14, 2012
  •   If I were a wood sprite or a forest nymph in the early 60s, this would have been my soundtrack. Music as trippy as the singers bowl hair [...]

    harmonies fit for wood sprites

    July 13, 2012
  • You can just imagine how terrible this album was. lol. A salute to Simon and Garfunkel. The Chartbusters are a folk, hits, rethrift. Enough [...]

    a Simon and Garfunkel Salute

    July 11, 2012
  • 500 miles is my fav on this album. It’s just so raw and sad and beautiful. Have a listen below. I used to finger pick it on my guitar at [...]

    500 miles of goodness that is Peter Paul & Mary

    July 6, 2012
  • Who better to kick off the folk festival season  with than Peter Paul and Mary? I mean, c’moon. Who doesn’t love them? Right away I [...]

    undeniably delicious harmony

    July 5, 2012
  •   Back Here On Earth. Not bad! I love Gord’s hippie era. Hope you enjoyed the highly google imaged photo shoot. That’s all you get [...]

    Back here on earth

    June 23, 2012
  • Wow, we had one day of summer and today it’s like soak your underwear as you walk to the car, rain. Pouring flippen rain. So, here’s [...]

    The One Day Summer

    June 22, 2012
  • HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SUMMER! (and it’s gorgous here.. looking out at the yellow brick wall view from my therapy office) Gordon [...]

    Early Mornin’ Rain

    June 20, 2012
  • Gordon Lightfoot’s Don Quixote It’s not  to be confused with Don Quijote ~the cheap dollar store in Hawaii. winks* to my Myers [...]

    Don Quixote

    June 19, 2012
  • Classic Lightfoot is today’s gem. I spent the morning in bed with my sweety and coffee and youtubing Gord on my iphone. I favourited about [...]

    Saturday Clothes with Gordon Lightfoot

    June 16, 2012
  • Gordon Lightfoot’ Summer Side of Life. It’s trying so hard to be nice out, that i thought I’d give us another Gord with some [...]

    Summer Side of Life ~amen brotha

    June 15, 2012
  •  Gordon Lightfoot I Love you. I bauled my eyes out the entire concert, last November in Vancouver. My sweety gave me tickets for my birthday and [...]

    Gordon Lightfoot does Janis Joplin in 1970

    June 14, 2012
  • From the Godfather to  father in law… nice segue, non? Happy Birthday to Terry today! In honour of him, here is possibly my favourite [...]

    Happy Birthday Terry!

    June 11, 2012
  • CONGRATS KATE aka Snapper Pants on writing your Psychologist exam in Nova Scotia yesterday and PASSING!? The Graduate by Paul Simon & [...]

    The Graduate! Congrats Kate!

    May 30, 2012
  • Simon and Garfunkel’s Bride Over Troubled Water. No catchy subject title necessary. This is as classic as classic folk albums of the 70s [...]

    Bridge Over Troubled Water

    May 29, 2012
  •   Art Garfunkel ~ Watermark. “Art Garfunkel, coming to a church basement near you. Oh, there’s plenty I want to say about Art [...]

    He Should Have Stuck With Simon

    May 27, 2012
  • Why am I putting this surprisingly fantastic album MELANIE at CARNEGIE HALL in my Top 30 records of 2012? After eagerly  listening to Sides A [...]

    infectious romp about freedom and roller skates

    May 12, 2012

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