Anne Murray remembers Gordon Lightfoot
WHEN TWO QUIET CANADIANS CHANGED MUSIC HISTORY FOREVER On May 2, 2023, only hours after the passing of Gordon Lightfoot, fellow Canadian legend Anne Murray joined CBC Listen for a…
WHEN TWO QUIET CANADIANS CHANGED MUSIC HISTORY FOREVER On May 2, 2023, only hours after the passing of Gordon Lightfoot, fellow Canadian legend Anne Murray joined CBC Listen for a…
JOHN PRINE TURNED LIFE’S MISERY INTO LAUGHTER AND MADE EVERYONE FEEL LESS ALONE In 1978, a young John Prine stood onstage with a guitar, a crooked smile, and a song…
A QUIET TRIBUTE WRAPPED IN MOUNTAIN AIR AND MEMORY At Blackberry Farm, surrounded by the stillness of the Great Smoky Mountains, Emmylou Harris performed “Strong Hand” with the kind of…
A spiritual rock journey where The Osmonds dared to ask what happens after the battle between good and evil — and turned faith, fear, and hope into one of the…
A gentle homecoming wrapped in melody — “Alberta Bound” is not simply a song about travel, but about the quiet ache of returning to the places that still remember who…
A Night When Glam Rock Refused to Grow Old — Les Gray Returned to the Stage Not as a Relic of the Past, but as the Living Pulse of an…
A playful hit on the surface, but beneath the cheerful rhythm, “Running Bear” carried the loneliness of impossible love — a story that somehow sounded both innocent and heartbreakingly tragic…
THE NIGHT ANNE MURRAY STOPPED BEING “THE GIRL NEXT DOOR” In 1982, Anne Murray returned home to the Maritimes carrying far more than another album release. She arrived in Halifax…
A SILVER VOICE CARRYING THE SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAINS When Emmylou Harris sang “Tennessee Rose” at the Amsterdam Muziekcentrum, the performance felt less like a concert and more like a…
ONE MAN, ONE GUITAR, AND A LIFETIME OF REFUSING TO SETTLE DOWN In September 2012, Jerry Jeff Walker stood alone on a stage in Auburn, California, singing “Contrary to Ordinary”…