On the unceded slave-raiding
lands of the Euclataw people
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You Can’t Say That
Vancouver Zeitgeist
muses on music
A brief and random survey includes Canadian country music, Vancouver’s Cellar jazz co-op, precocious Nanaimo talent, bluegrass, R&B, truly awful blues festivals and Bob Dylan’s harmonica playing.
Salvation in Svalutation
Searching pop music for truth and transcendence,
and stuff. Read more…
Just off Broadway
The Cellar co-op left Vancouver jazz
a lasting legacy. Read more…
R.I.P. R&B
Was rhythm and blues already dead
or did Aretha Franklin’s funeral kill it?
Read more…
Misunderstood, still
A Nobel for literature leaves Bob Dylan’s
greatest gift unrecognized. Read more…
Jazz City, pop. 84,000
Does Nanaimo’s teenage talent represent a local
phenomenon or a precocious generation? Read more…
Whither the blues?
The music lives on, but not necessarily at blues festivals.
Read more…