Fervor Coulee’s Favourite Roots Albums of 2020

I’ve been writing about roots music for 20 years, and have been assembling self-indulgent ‘favourite roots albums of the year’ lists for most of that time. While always a pleasant challenge, this year’s list was the most difficult for me to assemble. COVID-19 kept me even more tied to my remote music world this year,…

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Corb Lund- Agricultural Tragic review

Corb Lund has been around for a long time. Even as an Albertan on the periphery (way out on the periphery) of the roots music industry, I likely only heard of him in 2003 when 5 Dollar Bill came out of (seemingly) nowhere. But he was around long before then. I wasn’t into rock at…

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Favourite Roots Albums of the Year, 2015.

Time for the annual ‘best of’ list which I never title ‘best of.’ I always go with Favourites because that is all I can go by: which albums have I listened to the most this past year, which ones have I most appreciated, and which ones do I feel are of an exceptional quality? In…

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Why Corb Lund’s Cabin Fever Should Win the 2013 Polaris Music Prize

Since I gave up the newspaper column last year, I haven’t had too many opportunities for ‘high’ (or, even low) profile writing gigs, but the folks at the Polaris Music Prize gave me the assignment of writing a treatise on why I believe Corb Lund’s Cabin Fever should not only make the Short List (to…

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Polaris Music Prize 2013

A few weeks ago, I submitted my ‘first ballot’ for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. It looked like this: #1 = Neil Young – Psychedelic Pill #2 = J. R. Shore – State Theatre #3 = Corb Lund – Cabin Fever #4 = John Reischman – Walk Along John #5 = Maria Dunn – Piece…

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2013 JUNO Award Nominees- Roots Categories

The Juno Award nominees were announced today and there was little joy for the roots folks this year. In the ‘big’ categories, not a wiff of roots amongst the populist material that keeps the industry afloat. Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo– the nominees are Amelia Curran- Spectators Annabelle Chvostek- Rise Corb Lund-…

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Calgary Folk Music Festival- July 24, 2010

Thanks to Jeff over at Country Standard Time, I was able to attend a day at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. As I’ve written before, I have a hard time attending more than a day of any festival. Calgary never disappoints and even lacking huge name acts- Roberta Flack (!) and Ian Tyson were likely…

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