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You’re back? Does that mean you actually had a good opening night of Sled, perhaps enjoying some of the acts we recommended?
Pretend for a second you have just awoken from a, let’s say, three-year coma.
At the end of 2021 we put the spotlight on the best Calgary albums we heard from the year in an attempt to get local folks more acquainted with the amazing talent making music in the city.
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.
Calgary songwriter Carter Felker’s new album, Even the Happy Ones are Sad, is a medley of moments snatched out of the parlours, bedrooms and evening news stories of the characters who inhabit his songs.
A start to a story that doesn’t usually end well. In fact, it’s usually followed by a missing person’s report and possibly a cross-Canada manhunt and standoff in a motel on the outskirts of town.
Indulge me. One of the first sentences I was paid to write, almost 30 years ago, was one that kicked off a profile and interview with legendary guitarist and vocalist John Hammond, who was coming to town that week.
They are, arguably, as much a part of Canadian comic TV character lore as Bob and Doug, and Red Green. (We’ll leave the King of Kensington and Louis Del Grande out of this discussion, for proper respect.)
We’re now at the point where we’ve moved on from the f-in’ “P”-word to the “A”-word or the “M”-word. We don’t p*vot, we adapt or we modify.

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