or, I’ll Do the Rolling, You Do the Detail - Giving readers clues, including through specific, charged words, gives readers context. Here's what I've learned...
Well Grant, you put Thugs up front, and once I read the words I had to hear it, so I popped on the headphones and entered the sonic world of The Tragically Hip. It rendered me incapable of attending to any of the details in the rest of your piece, but I’ll come back to it later when my head is clear of song. But first, Buck Owens singing “Ruby”: Honey are you mad at your man.
Wow - I had no idea that line came from somewhere! Apparently, The Kingston Trio recorded it as well (among others) -- the Hip are from Kingston, Ontario, so I wonder if that had an influence on the choice to include that line at all?
The Hip were (and for some, still are) the biggest band in Canada -- world famous in Canada, as Randy Bachman would say. They played SNL once (with the Day for Night album), but never broke out big elsewhere. They consistently toured the US and Europe though, and had relatively big followings in local markets.
If you are looking for a deep dive, my favourite Hip albums are the first ones: Up to Here, Road Apples, Fully Completely, and Day for Night. Those have a lot of straightforward rock, but they go to different musical places after that. Many people enjoyed it, so there is lots to listen there, too. I find that some of those songs I'm coming to appreciate more as I get older.
Well Grant, you put Thugs up front, and once I read the words I had to hear it, so I popped on the headphones and entered the sonic world of The Tragically Hip. It rendered me incapable of attending to any of the details in the rest of your piece, but I’ll come back to it later when my head is clear of song. But first, Buck Owens singing “Ruby”: Honey are you mad at your man.
Wow - I had no idea that line came from somewhere! Apparently, The Kingston Trio recorded it as well (among others) -- the Hip are from Kingston, Ontario, so I wonder if that had an influence on the choice to include that line at all?
The Hip were (and for some, still are) the biggest band in Canada -- world famous in Canada, as Randy Bachman would say. They played SNL once (with the Day for Night album), but never broke out big elsewhere. They consistently toured the US and Europe though, and had relatively big followings in local markets.
If you are looking for a deep dive, my favourite Hip albums are the first ones: Up to Here, Road Apples, Fully Completely, and Day for Night. Those have a lot of straightforward rock, but they go to different musical places after that. Many people enjoyed it, so there is lots to listen there, too. I find that some of those songs I'm coming to appreciate more as I get older.
Anyway, have a fun musical ride!