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It’s A ‘New Day New World’ for Canadian 80s Icons the Spoons

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It’s A ‘New Day New World’ for Canadian 80s Icons the Spoons

Mark it on your calendars: it’s a New Day New World for iconic Canadian band Spoons and their newest release — available now!

Formed in 1980, Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne made Spoons a different kind of household word…

They would help define the sound of pop and new wave in the 80s with hits including “Nova Heart”, “Romantic Traffic”, “Old Emotions” and “Tell No Lies.” Their album Arias & Symphonies would go on to be named one of the 20 Most Influential Albums of The 80s by The Chart Magazine, and their song “Nova Heart” was recently included in Bob Mersereau’s book The Top 100 Canadian Singles.

Not bad for a bunch of kids from Burlington, Ontario.

And now, evoking all the fun of their most notorious ear-gems of hits, their newest 12-track missive lands the band firmly in 2019.

Starting off strong with the signature Spoons sound fans new and never-waning come for, the opening song “All The Wrong Things (In The Right Places)” is set and ready for instant anthem status. Trivia buffs will want to know: its final mix was a collaborative campaign after an online contest had listeners nation-wide submit chants to be mixed into the song’s chorus.

And “Beautiful Trap” — a song about all the things we can’t resist, no matter how hard we try — brings back the ‘doot-doots’ of 1984’s hit “Romantic Traffic.”

The band says it wasn’t intentional…. “Like the lyrics of the song insist, it was unavoidable,” they say. “It’s in our DNA!”

Formed in 1980, Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horne soon made Spoons a different kind of household word. They would help define the sound of pop and new wave in the 80s with hits including Nova Heart, Romantic Traffic, Old Emotions and Tell No Lies. Their album Arias & Symphonies would go on to be named one of the 20 Most Influential Albums of The 80s by The Chart Magazine and their song Nova Heart was recently included in Bob Mersereau’s book The Top 100 Canadian Singles. Not bad for a bunch of kids from Burlington, Ontario.

Their first album Stick Figure Neighbourhood was recorded in 1981 at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, Ontario with an up and coming engineer named Daniel Lanois. The album garnered rave press reviews and reached #1 on college radio. But it wouldn’t be until the release of their song Nova Heart, produced by John Punter of Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry fame, that the Spoons became a household name. The Arias & Symphonies album, recorded at George Martin’s Air Studios in London, England, solidified the Spoons’ presence on the new wave music front. With the commercial radio success that followed the band saw themselves opening for such acts as The Police, Culture Club and Simple Minds. A little TV show called MuchMusic had also just been launched and the young Spoons were tailor-made for a whole new video-driven generation. In fact, the very first episode of the show began with, “Welcome to MuchMusic. Coming up we have brand new videos by Duran Duran, Howard Jones and the Spoons.” A new era was launched with those words.

In 1983, Ready Records brought on Nile Rodgers (Chic, David Bowie, Madonna, and most recently Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”) to produce their follow-up album Talkback. More radio hits emerged, including Romantic Traffic, Old Emotions and Tell No Lies. The Spoons continued to build their fan base around the world. The video for Romantic Traffic, shot in the subways of Toronto, remains as one of the most iconic Canadian videos of all time.

A soundtrack for Ron Mann’s movie Listen To The City and two more studio albums followed. Under the wing of Rush’s manager Ray Danniels, the Spoons recorded the Bridges Over Borders and Vertigo Tango albums on Anthem Records. The resulting singles Bridges Over Borders, Be Alone Tonight, Rodeo, When Time Turns Around and Waterline kept the band making videos and touring until the end of the 80s. But the decade was winding down as a new wave of music called Grunge was taking the world by storm. A lot of people believed that this would mark the end for all things 80s. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Something that would soon be known as Retro 80s was looming just around the corner.

The greatest hits package Collectible Spoons was released in 1994 on MCA/Universal Music and led to one of the band’s most successful tours ever. The old fans were hungry for the music they grew up on and new ones were eager to give the 80s a second listen. Spoons songs were being played more frequently as many radio stations featured all-80s shows. A new offshoot of MuchMusic called MuchMoreMusic revived all the old 80s videos. The unthinkable was happening. The 80s were back.

When the retro phenomenon showed no signs of stopping, a new album seemed like the next logical step. In 2010, Gordon and Sandy released Static In Transmission, produced by Jeff Carter; their first collection of new songs in over two decades. Although still undeniably Spoons, the single You Light Up proved that the band remained inexplicably current. In fact, John Sakamoto of the Toronto Star included it in his prestigious Anti-Hit List the week of its release, usually reserved for up and coming new artists. Not bad for a band that’d been around for thirty years.

In 2012 Sparks Music and Ready Records celebrated the 30th anniversary of one of the band’s most successful releases with a special Nova Heart Anniversary EP. The package contains the quintessential 1982 album cut and dance club extended mix, as well as the electronica/dub step Singularity remix, which has become the high point of their live shows and new favourite for fans new and old alike. A special 30th Anniversary edition of the Arias & Symphonies album followed, released by Sparks/Ready Records/Universal Music, complete with extensive liner notes, historical photos and live tracks. It also saw the reunion, for the first after twenty-six years, of the original band line-up for an incredible sold-out release party in Toronto.

In 2013 the Spoons won the Music Express Magazine “Back In The Spotlight” Award. A remastered version of their debut album Stick Figure Neighbourhood was released on vinyl, followed in 2014 by the 30th Anniversary CD commemorating their smash hits Romantic Traffic and Tell No Lies. The anniversary show, complete with the original line-up of Rob Preuss, Derrick Ross, Sandy and Gord was filmed for a concert DVD/documentary available this March, 2015. Gord Deppe’s autobiography SpoonFed, released through Manor House Publishing, is available through Chapters and Indigo stores and quickly became a #1 Best Seller in its genre on Amazon.

The Retro 80s movement shows no signs of slowing down. Not one bit. The band is currently recording new material, working on more remixes of their classic hits and will be touring Canada this summer. And as far as Sandy and Gord and a lot of fans are concerned, that is a very good thing indeed.

New Day New World is available now.

Warner Music Group Lines Up Record Store Crawls

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Warner Music Group Lines Up Record Store Crawls

WARNER MUSIC GROUP will stage its fourth annual series of official Record Store Crawls, which take place over the next few months in various cities across the country. Participants will enjoy live performances as they’re escorted by bus to some of each city’s best record stores while enjoying refreshments, a gift bag including a mystery vinyl LP, and other limited-edition gifts.

The first of this year’s crawls will place in NEW YORK CITY, while the remainder of the crawls will are scheduled from JUNE through OCTOBER. Other WARNER MUSIC artists confirmed to perform at select Record Store Crawl dates include: SKATING POLLY in SEATTLE, RUN RIVER NORTH and WILD in LOS ANGELES, BETCHA in NASHVILLE, and CHIEF WHITE LIGHTNING in AUSTIN. The full itinerary will be revealed the week of each event.

Attendees will be among the first to have access to limited-edition vinyl released to coincide with the crawls, including exclusives from RAY CHARLES, and more to be announced.

Record Store Crawl Dates:

  • 4/13 – NEW YORK
  • 6/1 – MINNEAPOLIS
  • 6/22 – SEATTLE
  • 6/29 – ROCHESTER, NY
  • 6/29 – BIRMINGHAM, AL
  • 7/20 – ORLANDO
  • 7/20 – LOS ANGELES
  • 8/10 – PORTLAND, OR
  • 8/24 – NASHVILLE
  • 8/25 – AUSTIN, TX
  • 10/5 – PHOENIX
  • 10/19 – CHICAGO

Tickets can be purchased at www.recordstorecrawl.com.

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Why Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band is a masterpiece

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Why Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band is a masterpiece

Brace yourselves, this video is about Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.

Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band was inducted into the Library of Congress’ national recording registry in 2010 – nearly 40 years after it’s release. The album has been widely cited by artists of all kinds as a shining point of creativity and original thought – it also is very very hard to listen to. It’s the musical equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting. Its discordant rhythms and motifs sound made up on the spot by a child, but every sound and riff you hear on the album was arduously rehearsed over the course of a year by a group of young musicians who were remarkable in their own right.

The Head And The Heart Announce North American Tour

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The Head And The Heart Announce North American Tour

The Head And The Heart have announced a North American tour for this spring and fall in support of their newly announced album Living Mirage which will be released on May 17th via Reprise Records / Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Live Nation, the 38-city outing will kick off June 21st in Buffalo, NY and make stops in Austin, Denver, Chicago, Atlanta and more, before wrapping October 20th in Toronto, ON. A full rundown of tour dates can be found below. Special guest Hippo Campus will join the July dates of the tour.

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, March 29th at 10am local time at LiveNation.com. Citi is the official presale credit card for the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 26th at 10am local time until Thursday, March 28th at 10pm local time through Citi’s Private Pass program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. A special fan presale will also be available beginning Monday, March 25th at 10am local time until Thursday, March 28th at 10pm local time.

Every ticket purchased online for The Head and The Heart includes your choice of a CD or digital copy of the new album, Living Mirage, released on 5/17/19. You’ll receive instructions via email on how to redeem your album after ticket purchase.

“Missed Connection,” the first single from the new album, is now available to download, stream or watch the lyric video.

Summer/Fall North American Tour Dates:
04/14/19 – High Water Fest at Riverfront Park – North Charleston, SC
04/16/19 – Bijou Theatre – Knoxville, TN
04/17/19 – Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre – Wilmington, NC
04/19/19 – Hargray Capitol Theatre – Macon, GA
04/20/19 – Walker Theatre – Memorial Auditorium – Chattanooga, TN
04/21/19 – Manchester Music Hall – Lexington, KY
04/23/19 – Druid City Music Hall – Tuscaloosa, AL
04/24/19 – The Lyric Oxford – Oxford, MS
04/26/19 – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – New Orleans, LA+
06/21/19 – Alternative Buffalo’s Kerfuffle – Canalside – Buffalo, NY+
06/23/19 – Alt 92.3 Summer Open – Forest Hills Stadium – New York, NY+
07/06/19 – Starlight Theatre – Kansas City, MO *
07/07/19 – Stifel Theatre – St. Louis, MO *
07/09/19 – ACL Live at The Moody Theater – Austin, TX *
07/12/19 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Dallas, TX *
07/13/19 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX *
07/14/19 – Brady Theater – Tulsa, OK
07/17/19 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Denver, CO *+
07/18/19 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Denver, CO *+
07/19/19 – The Great Saltair – Salt Lake City, UT *
07/22/19 – Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, AZ *
07/23/19 – Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA *+
07/25/19 – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort – Reno, NV *
07/26/19 – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – San Francisco, CA *
08/16/19 – Woodstock 50 – Glen, NY+
09/06/19 – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre – Indianapolis, IN
09/08/19 – PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center – Cincinnati, OH
09/10/19 – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica – Cleveland, OH
09/11/19 – 20 Monroe Live – Grand Rapids, MI
09/13/19 – Chicago Theatre – Chicago, IL
09/18/19 – The Armory – Minneapolis, MN
09/19/19 – Stephens Auditorium – Ames, IA
09/21/19 – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival – Franklin, TN+
09/26/19 – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium – Asheville, NC
09/27/19 – The Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
09/29/19 – Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre – Charlotte, NC
10/01/19 – Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, NC
10/03/19 – The Anthem – Washington, DC
10/08/19 – The MET – Philadelphia, PA
10/09/19 – Palace Theatre – Albany, NY
10/11/19 – Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre – Wallingford, CT
10/12/19 – Agganis Arena – Boston, MA
10/14/19 – UPMC Events Center – Moon Twp., PA
10/15/19 – The Fillmore Detroit presented by Cricket Wireless – Detroit, MI
10/16/19 – Palace Theatre – Columbus, OH
10/18/19 – Algonquin Commons Theatre – Ottawa, ON
10/19/19 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC
10/20/19 – Sony Centre for the Performing Arts – Toronto, ON

DJ Cummerbund Mashes Depeche Mode and The Turtles

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DJ Cummerbund Mashes Depeche Mode and The Turtles

Take ‘Personal Jesus’ and mix it with ‘Happy Together’ to get ‘Happy with Jesus.’

DJ Cummerbund is legendary on YouTube for his mash-ups of classic songs that really don’t belong together but work so well, they’re so happy together.

Playing Hip Hop Music Makes Cheese Taste Better

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Playing Hip Hop Music Makes Cheese Taste Better

When searching a fromagerie for the perfect chunk of cheddar or parmesan, cheese aficionados have probably never grilled vendors over what kind of music was played to their cheeses. But a Swiss cheesemaker has embarked on an experiment to test the impact of music on Emmental, one of the most famous cheeses in Switzerland, even if it prompts pundits to write such grating remarks as: you gouda brie kidding!

A unique study by the Bern University of the Arts claims music can impact the taste of cheese, and it seems to indicate Hip hop music in particular makes cheese taste best.

Here’s That Sax Solo from Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” On A 10-Hour Loop

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Here’s That Sax Solo from Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” On A 10-Hour Loop

“Baker Street” by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty and features one of the most popular sax solos, ever, as a prominent eight-bar saxophone riff played as a break between verses, by Raphael Ravenscroft.

In January 2011, radio presenter Simon Lederman revealed that Ravenscroft thought the solo was out of tune. When asked during a live radio interview on BBC Radio London, “What do you think when you hear the sax solo now?” Ravenscroft replied, “I’m irritated because it’s out of tune; yeah it’s flat; by enough of a degree that it irritates me at best”, and admitted he was “gutted” when he heard it played back. He added that he had not been able to re-record the take, as he was not involved when the song was mixed.

Here’s that solo, for 10 hours. Because, internet.

Hugh Masekela-The Father of South African Jazz

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Hugh Masekela is a renowned composer, singer, and trumpeter. He is popularly known as the father of South African jazz. During his lifetime, Hugh made exceptional jazz compositions. He wrote a variety of anti-apartheid songs including Bring Him Back Home and Soweto Blues. Hugh passed away in January 2018 at the age of 78. In this post, we highlight the early life, music career and achievements of the legendary Hugh Masekela.

Early Life

Hugh Masekela was born in April 1939 in KwaGuga Township, Witbank. His parents were Thomas Selena and Pauline Bowsers his father worked as a health inspector while his mother was a social worker. Hugh spent most of his early life with his grandmother where he developed an interest in playing piano and singing.

Hugh started playing the trumpet when he was 14 years old. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston bought him the first trumpet. Trevor was a chaplain at St. Martin’s School. He requested Uncle Sauda, the leader of the Johannesburg brass band to teach Hugh the fundamentals of playing trumpets. Masekela was a quick learner. Some of Hugh’s classmates started playing different instruments thus forming the famous Huddleston Jazz Band.

Upon hearing about the band, Louis Armstrong sent a trumpet to Hugh as a gift. Masekela led his bandmates until 1956 before joining the African Jazz Revue. Hugh composed several anti-apartheid South African jazz songs between 1950 and 1968. They enabled him to reach a huge population. In 1958, the Manhattan Brothers toured South Africa. Hugh produced the King Kong which Todd Matshikiza had written. He toured the country for a year together with Nathan Mdledle and Miriam Makeba.

Musical Career

Hugh joined Johnny Gertze, Kippie Moeketsi, Makhaya Ntshoko, and Dollar Brand to form the Jazz Epistles in 1959. They performed in several concerts in Cape Town and Johannesburg for a year. However, in March 1960, more than 65 people were killed in the Sharpeville. The government banned people from assembling in groups of 10 or more. Trevor Huddleston helped Hugh to leave the country. John Dankworth and Yehudi Menuhin helped him get admission into the Guildhall School of Music.

Masekela joined the Manhattan School of Music in 1960 to study classical trumpet. He married Mariam Makeba in 1964. However, they divorced in 1966. Several years later, Hugh, collaborated with Central and West African musicians. He re-absorbed mbaqanga strains after returning to South Africa. During his lifetime, High received many honors including the Doctors of Music in Rhodes University, an Honorary Doctorate in Music in the University of York and the Legend Award during the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards.

Hugh Masekela’s Best Songs

Hugh produced several South African jazz songs such as:

  • Chileshe
  • Grazing in the Grass
  • Going’ Back to New Orleans
  • Stimela
  • Khawuleza
  • Thuma Mina
  • Mafikizolo feat. Hugh Masekela
  • Thanayi feat. Thandiswa Mazwai

Hugh Masekela will be remembered for his amazing South African jazz songs. He fought for the rights of oppressed South Africans by taking part in different anti-apartheid campaigns. The ruling government exiled him for 30 years. Hugh returned to South Africa in 1990 after the release of Nelson Mandela. He succumbed to prostate cancer in January 2018 in Johannesburg at the age of 78.

Tim Baker Releases Nostalgia Anthem “All Hands” From New Solo Album “Forever Overhead”

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Tim Baker Releases Nostalgia Anthem “All Hands” From New Solo Album “Forever Overhead”

Forever Overhead, the debut album from singer-songwriter Tim Baker, features eleven songs that centre on kinship. His buoyant first single “Dance” was about a longing for connection and feeling close to, but ultimately separated from, love. “All Hands,” his joyous indie-folk single, again explores connections, but is less of a lament than a thank you letter, dedicated to the people who have helped Baker throughout his career, and part nostalgic anthem about his Newfoundland home.

“This is a song about my past,” says Baker who grew up in the small maritime town of St. John’s before moving to Toronto, the 4th largest city in North America, in 2018. “It’s a song of homesickness that grew into a nostalgic anthem. I was thinking of the Newfoundland diaspora (or any diaspora, really). And it turned out celebratory – sort of revelling in the fact that there is this place that is an inescapable part of me, along with all the people there that I’ve loved and learned from and been shaped by. One of my favourite things is when a reason for despair turns out to also be a reason for celebration, almost simultaneously. It feels good to sing.”

Forever Overhead, is produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), and set for release on April 19, 2019 via Arts & Crafts.

For his debut solo album, Tim Baker, formerly the songwriter and lead vocalist of beloved Canadian indie rock band Hey Rosetta!, took his inspiration from ‘70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home, and from his contemporaries (Feist, Bahamas, Andy Shauf). The resulting blend of piano ballads, pop grooves, and ebullient folk-rock is straightforward with curious undertones that provides a timeless backdrop for Baker’s vibrant lyricism.

The album was announced in February alongside the breezy lead single “Dance” with a beautiful video directed by Tim’s long-time friend and fellow Newfoundlander Jordan Canning (Schitt’s Creek, Baroness Von Sketch). The video, shot in the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, further examined our modern dissociation and desire. Drawing upon this unique setting where nature is frozen in time behind glass, the video speaks to how increasingly disconnected we are from nature and the people in our lives, even when they are right in front of us.

The search for personal connection is a recurring theme in both Tim Baker’s songwriting as well as his approach to live performance. In February of 2018, he travelled across Canada solo to play a handful of intimate shows in some of the oddest venues: a book store, living rooms, a ski lodge, the rink bar during a curling tournament and a hotel room Tim lived in for a week. This intentional, unconventional approach allowed him to distill the purest elements of these songs by road-testing them in the most challenging of circumstances – alone in front of silent, small, attentive audiences. All delivered from the heart and either by piano or guitar and most of which will comprise a 5 song live video EP/doc style mini series entitled “The Side Door Sessions.”

TIM BAKER – HEADLINE SHOWS 2019:
04/17/19 Hamilton, ON The Casbah (All Ages)
04/19/19 St. John’s, NL Holy Heart Theatre* (second show added)
04/20/19 St. John’s, NL Holy Heart Theatre*
04/23/19 Toronto, ON Great Hall* SOLD OUT
04/24/19 Toronto, ON Great Hall* (second show added) SOLD OUT
04/25/19 Toronto, ON Great Hall* (third show added)
04/26/19 Ottawa, ON Bronson Centre*
04/28/19 Quebec City, QC Maelstrom* (new date)
04/29/19 Fredericton, NB Wilmot United Church*
04/30/19 Moncton, NB Tide and Boar Ballroom*
05/02/19 Charlottetown, PE ECMAs
05/03/19 Halifax, NS St. Matthew’s United Church (second show added)* SOLD OUT
05/04/19 Halifax, NS St. Matthew’s United Church* SOLD OUT
05/07/19 Montreal, QC Le Ministère*
05/08/19 NYC, NY Rockwood Music Hall
05/11/19 Brooklyn, NY Jalopy Theatre
05/13/19 Asbury Park, NJ Danny Clinch Gallery
05/14/19 Vienna, VA Jammin Java
05/16/19 Boston, MA Cafe 939
05/18/19 Burlington, VT Higher Ground Showcase
05/20/19 Buffalo, NY Leopard Lounge at Town Ballroom
05/29/19 Edmonton, AB The Station on Jasper*
05/30/19 Calgary, AB Commonwealth Bar & Stage*
06/01/19 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom* (venue change)
06/03/19 Seattle, WA Columbia City Theater*
06/04/19 Portland, OR The Old Church*
06/07/19 Los Angeles, CA The Hotel Cafe*
06/08/19 San Francisco, CA Hotel Utah*
*with Charlotte Cornfield

Tom Wilson’s Lee Harvey Osmond Announces Spring Tour Dates, Shares New Video For “Forty Light Years”

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Tom Wilson’s Lee Harvey Osmond Announces Spring Tour Dates, Shares New Video For “Forty Light Years”

Today, Lee Harvey Osmond (aka Tom Wilson) is sharing the new video for “Forty Light Years”, a song that’s been steadily moving its way up the CBC Music Top 20 for the past few weeks and has now hit #3. His fourth Lee Harvey Osmond album, Mohawk, centres around the discovery of Wilson’s true heritage and the culture, and has been holding the #1 spot on Earshot’s Folk & Roots chart for the past five weeks.

This week, Wilson begins a string of tour dates supporting his new record Mohawk and autobiography, Beautiful Scars. Full tour dates can be found below.

When Wilson created the moniker Lee Harvey Osmond he wasn’t entirely certain if this was a new stage name or merely a provocative handle for the musician/artist collective assembled by producer Michael Timmins to record a collection of Tom Wilson songs that would become A Quiet Evil. This was the first of four albums bearing the featured artist Lee Harvey Osmond. The Folk Sinner was next, followed by the break through Beautiful Scars. It was during this time between releasing Beautiful Scars and recording Kings and Kings with Blackie and The Rodeo Kings that Wilson went public with his recent discovery. He was not exactly the person he thought he was.

In his 50s, Wilson learned that the parents who raised him were not his birth parents; that, in fact, he was adopted and that his biological mother and father were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve, just outside of Montreal. Grappling with this newfound sense of himself plunged Wilson into a quest for his heritage and his truth, and led to the writing of his bestselling autobiography, Beautiful Scars (Doubleday Canada). The book is a colourful and truthful tale of this quest, and his life’s tribulations and successes along the path.

“It is a story of finding your way home,” he says. “It’s a story of adoption, of growing up thinking you’re a big, sweaty, Irish guy, and finding out at the age of 53 that you’re a Mohawk.”

Under the steady hand of producer Michael Timmins, the musician collective Lee Harvey Osmond revives the origins of ‘Acid Folk’ with appearances from old friends Ray Farrugia (percussion), Aaron Goldstein (steel guitar), Jesse O’Brien (keyboards) and introduces Anna Reddick (bass). The expanded use of Darcy Hepner’s brass and baritone sax and brilliant harmonica flashes from blues veteran Paul Reddick and Wilson’s son, Thompson Wilson, sound as guideposts behind the moody grooves of Wilson’s literary recital. Suzie Ungerleider (Oh Susanna) provides the perfect backing vocal ingredient for Wilson’s baritone.

Wilson’s life has been an ongoing quest so it is perhaps inevitable that after decades immersed in poetry, literature and music he would turn attention to visual art, a language that transcends the verbal and the written. The packaging and visual elements of Mohawk incorporate Tom Wilson creations. In particular a painting of the same name from his collection Beautiful Scars: Mohawk Warriors, Hunter and Chiefs

He is still driven to ask questions, to seek meaning from the elusive mysteries hidden beneath the surface of everyday existence, to come to terms with his history, his identity; to aspire to higher truths and to understand his place in the world. “If I have 20 more years on this planet, I hope to keep becoming a Mohawk, because I can’t become a Mohawk the way my brothers and sisters and ancestors did.”

LEE HARVEY OSMOND TOUR DATES
April 10 Grand Prairie Live Theatre, Grande Prairie, AB
April 26 Mount Tabor Theatre, Milford,ON
April 27 1000 Islands Writers Festival 2019 (Thousand Islands Playhouse) Gananoque, ON
May 1 First Ontario PAC, St. Catherines, ON
May 2 First Ontario PAC, St. Catherines, ON
May 3 Koerner Hall, Toronto, ON
May 16 Hugh’s Room , Toronto, ON
May 25 Blacksheep Inn, Wakefield, QC

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