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.
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.
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.)
It’s an opening you’d be stupid not to take.
Reaching Reuben Bullock at his temporary home in Joshua Tree, CA, he sounds a little frazzled, perhaps slightly overwhelmed.
Even the simple query of how’s it going is met with … something.