Our deepest apologies, dear voracious readers slash consumers of pop culture, for ignoring thou these past days...weeks...ahem. Between my day job and this, life has been crammed full of hot action(cop?).
While we have five seconds, here's today's Essential Listening, another multi-parter, and culled entirely from the 2008 Ottawa Bluesfest thus far:
1. Kathleen Edwards - Ottawa's own, and a hell of a singer/songwriter/all-around performer
2. The Weakerthans - anyone from the punk scene is familiar with singer John K. Sampson's time spent with Propagandhi, but the Weakerthans have been kicking at the can for almost a decade now, and getting better with age. I've listened to nothing but 2003's Reconstruction Site for two days now
3. The Black Crowes - American southern-rock originators - and they're actually from the south! The Georgia band is touring behind their first album in years, War Paint, and while they played some of the new material, older hits like 'Remedy' and 'Jealous Again' sounded superb
4. Bernard Allison - a bit of a curveball for longtime readers here at the D, but as I get older(softer?) I'm opening up more and more to blues and other things, and Allison and his band kick out an amazing rock/blues/funk sound that literally drew me from one end of a massive open-park festival to the other with nothing more than a bass line
Bonne nuit!
Posted by mike at July 11, 2008 05:06 PM