The Chat Room: The Lucky Ones’ Ryan West
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by Jason Schneider
21h ago
On a hot Tuesday in August 2023, The Lucky Ones dropped into Ganaraska Recording Co., the studio east of Toronto run by Juno-winning multi-instrumentalist Steve Marriner and guitarist extraordinaire Jimmy Bowskill, following the time-honored tradition of artists capturing lightning in a bottle while in the midst of a tour. It indeed proved to be a highly […] The post The Chat Room: The Lucky Ones’ Ryan West first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Album reviews: Waxahatchee, Gary Clark Jr., Adrianne Lenker
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by Jason Schneider
21h ago
Waxahatchee / Tigers Blood (ANTI-) In the first lines of the opening track on her sixth album as Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield sings, “I make a living crying, it ain’t fair,” a sentiment to which most artists can relate. It’s just one of many brief flashes of insight peppered throughout Tigers Blood, and a mode of […] The post Album reviews: Waxahatchee, Gary Clark Jr., Adrianne Lenker first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Now What Do We Do? podcast Episode 4: Miranda Mulholland
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by Roots Music Canada
2d ago
Over the past couple of years, many musicians and arts organizations have found themselves struggling to reestablish and redefine themselves in the aftermath of more than two years of restrictions due to COVID-19. And artists and labels had already been dealing with massive losses of revenue due to the shift from physical and digital album […] The post Now What Do We Do? podcast Episode 4: Miranda Mulholland first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Album review: Tim Isberg – Prairie Fire
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by Gordy the Moose
3d ago
Retired soldier Tim Isberg has been building a career as a singer-songwriter for the past decade or so, having put out two previous albums prior to this one. But he has, to this point, largely been an Alberta phenomenon, flying somewhat under the radar outside the prairies. This might change that. Prairie Fire is a […] The post Album review: Tim Isberg – Prairie Fire first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Federal government adds $32 million annually to the Canada Music Fund for 2 years
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by Heather Kitching
4d ago
The federal government marked Juno weekend this weekend by announcing that it is adding $32 million annually to the Canada Music Fund for the next two years — giving the Canadian music industry more or less precisely the help it’s been saying is needed. The Canada Music Fund is a pot of government money administered […] The post Federal government adds $32 million annually to the Canada Music Fund for 2 years first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Here are your 2024 Juno Award winners in the roots, world and Indigenous categories
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by Heather Kitching
5d ago
The first round of Juno Awards was handed out in Halifax tonight, and that’s the round that includes all the awards we care about here at Roots Music Canada. And I have to say, after a Maple Blues Award ceremony earlier this year that drew criticism for the absence of Black artists among its winners […] The post Here are your 2024 Juno Award winners in the roots, world and Indigenous categories first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Video premiere: The Imagine If – ‘Devil’s Child’
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by Roots Music Canada
6d ago
Holy smokes is this ever a blistering new(ish) soul-meets-blues band from Toronto! The Imagine If have just released the first single from their forthcoming debut full-length album. It’s called “Devil’s Child,” and we’re stoked to give you a first look at the video today. The song is marked by bluesy guitar riffs, swinging horns, and […] The post Video premiere: The Imagine If – ‘Devil’s Child’ first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Ruth Moody releases ‘Seventeen’ from her first solo album in more than 10 years
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by Eric Alper
6d ago
No matter how far you think you’ve come, it’s hard to resist thinking about what might have been. That’s the rationale behind “Seventeen,” the achingly wistful single from Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth Moody’s forthcoming album, Wanderer, out May 17 on Blue Muse Records/True North Records. In her gentle yet authoritative soprano, Ruth looks back on a teenage crush […] The post Ruth Moody releases ‘Seventeen’ from her first solo album in more than 10 years first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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The Chat Room: The Denim Daddies
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by Jason Schneider
1w ago
When a lifestyle creates a musical style, that’s pretty much the definition of authenticity. So when Edmonton’s the Denim Daddies say they are creating their own form of authentic country music based on their fondness for beer drinking and breaking hearts, you’d best believe them. It’s all there on the band’s new seven-song release Northern […] The post The Chat Room: The Denim Daddies first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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Death Cab for Cutie’s Zac Rae teams up with singer-songwriter Nesua for debut single
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by Roots Music Canada
1w ago
Death Cab for Cutie keyboardist Zac Rae has teamed up with a singer-songwriter named Nesua for a new single called “Swim” from Nesua’s forthcoming debut album. There isn’t a lot I can tell you about Nesua. But the song, with its references to “a war that’s raging inside of me” is said to express “the […] The post Death Cab for Cutie’s Zac Rae teams up with singer-songwriter Nesua for debut single first appeared on Roots Music Canada ..read more
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