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Continue reading →: New Canadian Music – January 30, 2013
I am all about revival lately. Today I am going to revive a series on Canadian releases. I will try to stick to a Thursday schedule on this, but who knows! So let’s rock. First up is a new album by Canadian power blues duo, The Pack A.D.. …
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Continue reading →: Music From The Mailbag – Callan Furlong
A bit embarrassed on this one. Callan emailed me in August (yes, August) about his new album. He hit me in that period when I was not doing much and now only have gotten to this place in the mailbag. My apologies Callan. Callan is a Toronto based singer songwriter. …
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Continue reading →: Random Songs From My Phone – Hayley Sales – Simple Song
Hayley Sales is a Canadian/American singer songwriter. Born in DC, she moved with her family to Vancouver Island after she graduated the Northwest Academy. The song that I shuffled up is off her 2010 album, “When The Bird Became The Book” and is called “Simple Song”. This is the…
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Continue reading →: Interesting Covers – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
A true classic, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, was written in 1966 by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown. The song was originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. The version was deemed not strong enough by Barry Gordy and given to Marvin Gaye, who recorded…
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Continue reading →: Canada’s Number One Song And Album – January 25, 2013
We have new number 1’s on both charts this week. We will start with the number 1 song in Canada (as charted by CBC2), “Holding On For Life”, the newest single from the collaboration Broken Bells. Broken Bells is a group headed up by Danger Mouse and James Mercer…

