40 – Changes Nearing my 40th birthday things had started to unravel in both my personal life and with the band… Andrea and I had a daughter, Chi-lin, who’s short time with us was a beautiful reminder of all that is truly important in this life… Chi died shortly before her 3rd birthday, when Andrea […]
30 – Skydigging As my 30th birthday approached everything really started to come together… Andrew Cash, Jim Edigar and I had honed our sound with the Acoustic Meltdown and with the release of Andrew’s album Time and Place I got my first taste of life on the road. Josh and I had started playing and […]
20 – Searching At the time of my 20th birthday I was lost… I’d graduated high school, spent the fall of 1978 drifting through half a semester at Western; drinking too much, feeling sorry for myself and heartbroken over the end of my first serious relationship. After I decided to drop out of school the […]
10 No, not the movie… although Dudley Moore was pretty darn good… and it made Bo Derek many a teenage boy’s fantasy… but the birthday… the one when you’re just about past the age where someone laughs so hard at the table that they snort a combination of cola & cake out their nose… and […]
Monday Morning News… Again Guilty By Association Although I first heard the late, great, Vic Chesnutt play at the Calgary Folk Festival sometime in the ’90s I didn’t fully develop an appreciation for what a fine songwriter he was until the Cowboy Junkies asked me to sit in for Margo while they rehearsed material for […]
Dreams “It’s not alright, talking in circles ’round my dreams, tonight…” What kind of a life would it be if we didn’t have dreams, something to aspire to? My first dream was to be a goalie in the NHL… I loved watching Jacques Plante when he came to play for the Leafs near the end […]
Morning Morning News… Again Chemistry No, not the subject that nearly kept me in Grade 13 for another year… thanks Mrs. Lister… but those moments when you share a bond with a group of people where you all know that what you have experienced is something special… something that only you will fully understand and […]
MMN Again… The Natural (Hop, Skip and Jump) That’s Dad caught in mid flight at a track meet at Cobourg Collegiate sometime in the spring of 1940, age 15. Doing the Hop, Skip and Jump… or what we later called the Triple Jump. He was a natural athlete, good at whatever he tried… track & […]
Today, Skydiggers are sharing the new video for “Push Comes To Shove” from their latest album, Warmth Of The Sun. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZtdzmRkAXs&feature=youtu.be Don’t miss the last shows of 2017. Ticket links below! SKYDIGGERS ON TOUR Wed Nov 29 – Peterborough, ON – Market Hall (tickets: https://goo.gl/L7GGZ3) Fri Dec 1 – Kingston, ON […]
SKYDIGGERS SHARE NEW TRACK FROM UPCOMING ALBUM LISTEN AND SHARE “AN APOLOGY” HERE SKYDIGGERS’ WARMTH OF THE SUN OUT OCTOBER 20 VIA LATENT RECORDINGS PRE-ORDER WARMTH OF THE SUN HERE CD // VINYL // DIGITAL TOUR DATES BEGIN NOV 15 Today, Skydiggers are sharing another track from their upcoming album, Warmth Of The Sun. The […]