2017 Year-End Roundup: Favorite Classical Albums
One of the most delightful discoveries I’ve made this year as I’ve delved deeper into Canadian music has been the wealth of classical talent. …
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2017 Year-End Roundup: Favorite Jazz and Blues Albums
As our regular readers know, we most frequently focus on Canadian roots and folk music. But we are eclectic listeners here, and we’ve started…
2017 Year-End Roundup, Part V: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories
For the final part of our geographic year-end roundup, we focus on releases this year from Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest…
2017 Year-End Roundup, Part IV: Manitoba & Saskatchewan
For the fourth part of our geographic year-end roundup, we focus on releases this year from Manitoba and Saskatchewan. There are some seriously terrific artists…
2017 Year-End Roundup, Part III: Ontario
Westward we go, to the third part of our year-end roundup, focusing on releases this year from Ontario. As with Québec, so many great…
2017 Year-End Roundup, Part II: Québec
We move on in this second part of our roundup series to Québec, which (as always) provided a wealth of terrific new releases in…
2017 Year-End Roundup, Part I: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia
Ready for this year’s roundup of favorite albums? This year, we’re doing this in five parts – four organized regionally and then one overall…
Review: Ian Sherwood, “Bring the Light”
I must confess to not being at all familiar with the music of Ian Sherwood, but upon my first listen of his fifth studio…
Review: Black Suit Devil, “The Freedom Sessions”
On a recent road trip that saw Team GDW once again heading north to catch a live show in Southern Ontario, L took charge…
Snappy Snippets, Holiday Style: O’Pears, Bros, Tomato Tomato, Emilie-Claire Barlow
For many people, the Christmas holidays are a time to pull out scads of holiday albums and crank up those old, familiar Christmas songs…