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Mary-Lynn Wardle

It’s daytime on New Year’s Eve, and songwriter/guitarist Alejandro Escovedo and his wife Nancy Rankin are at Milton Riemer’s Ranch Park in the hill country of Dripping Springs, outside of Austin, Texas, ready to go for a hike after Escovedo finishes his interview.
When Ontario author Jason Schneider contacted legendary punk rocker Art Bergmann to write Bergmann’s biography, he wasn’t sure how it would go due to the many stories about the artist’s wild ways and crusty demeanour. 
“Run away with me. We could make beautiful music together.”  It’s a cliché from songs, cartoons and movies, but, in the case of singer/songwriters Laura Hickli and Taylor Cochrane, it fits. It fits them in a way this world perhaps hasn’t, what with Hickli’s, um, interesting childhood and Cochrane’s journey as an autistic person living with ADD, but, despite or more likely because of these nuances, the couple do, indeed, make beautiful music together.
Oh God! Ooohh God, friends, give it up. Give up your pretenses, give up your sick pride. Give up your moments of shame, and give up the secrets that keep you from connecting your soul – your real soul, not the one you dress up for daily display – to the soul of another.
It’s a good thing that Calgary songwriter Shane Ghostkeeper’s Northern Alberta uncles love pure country music.
If you recorded the first song you ever wrote live with your band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks at Max’s Kansas City — New York’s Ground Zero of bohemian wrecksody — when you were 16 years old, well, it just ain’t gonna get any more real than that.
Psst. Wake up. No, really, WAKE UP! If you need a shot of rhythm and blues to get you out of your spring rut, you ain’t finding it on the new Mares of Thrace album, The Exile, but if you want to roll over Beethoven and back up over him again, grinding gears and music into a sweet muddy pulp of wailing vocals riding the crest of walloping jackhammer rhythms, look no further.
The seventh version of the Calgary folk fest’s winter sister, Block Heater, revs up live after last year’s all online event.

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