The light’s gone green for songs about boulevard life: your #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, July 15, 2018

Three academics actually wrote a book about boulevards that’s quite a bit more fun than the title suggests. It’s called The Boulevard Book. Available wherever nerds shop near you.

It’s a @Canada Day #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, July 1, 2018:

Happy #CanadaDay (or #CanadaMeh to the 90% of the world who have other plans for the day)

 

Reviews, info & stuff: Cowboy Junkies, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, Weakerthans, Deep Dark Woods, Tanya Tagaq, Corb Lund, Rufus Wainwright, Constantines, Great Lake Swimmers, Garolou, Mike Stevens & Matt Andersen, Stompin’ Tom Connors, Roy Forbes & Connie Kaldor, Andrew Gunadie & Julia Bentley, Randy Bachman (& watch the vid of this with Neil Young).

Here’s a #TinPodShuffle of choice cuts from new albums for your Sunday, June 24, 2018:

Some might even keep you from getting to the church on time. wtf? Was that just lightning?

Singers are singing about singing on your #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, June 17, 2018:

Sing about what you know best, they say, and singers know about singing. Also managing groupies and tax problems and hair care, but I’ll leave those for another time.

Part 2: Your #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, June 10, 2018 was recorded before a live studio audience

This is week 2 of songs from albums that were recorded live in a studio before a small audience. Feel free to reward me with a smattering of polite applause.

Your #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, June 3, 2018 was recorded before a live studio audience

These are from albums recorded in a studio with a small audience. It helps some bands improvise and get energized, not to mention making it harder for knob-happy producers to suck the life and soul out of everything.

This is week 1 of a two-part look at when it has worked best. Please hold your applause until the end.

It’s songs with gratuitous use of French on your #TinPodShuffle for Sunday, May 13, 2018:

I like a certain amount of je ne sais quoi, but I don’t know where to get it fresh around here. I’ll go look while you have an ecouter: