SOUNDTRACK: RHEOSTATICS-Stan Rogers Folk Festival Canso NS (July 2, 2005).
Back in 2005, the Rheostatics played two days at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival. The first day’s show was a kind of mash up of the Rheostatics and other bands. Indeed, the recording includes some other artists along with the Rheos.
The sound quality of the recording is okay, but there are some really loud gusts of wind that seem to mar the sound.
They talk about how they are there to represent the excellence that is Toronto.
The second song is by The Chucky Danger Band (who later changed their name to Paper Lions). It is called “Hola” and is pretty fun (there’s a story about them being in a foreign country and writing a song with these simple words in Spanish.
Then the Rheos come back and they are joined by Suzie Vinick and Jill Barber.
Suzie sings a folky, unusual cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock n Roll.” Then Jill sings her own “Nothing on Me” a nice folk song. Then they do a super fun version of “Red Dog Ray” by Hank Fisher.
It’s back to Suzie with her cool song “A 7 minor.” Then a folky rendition of “Bad Time to Be Poor” with great backing vocals
Suzie gets one more song, this time, her own “Happy Here.” The last track is a fun rendition of “Claire” with a kazoo solo! It seems like a perfect folk festival setting.
[READ: September 7, 2015] “Working Clean”
This is the first story I’ve read by Ruthnum. It went in a direction I totally did not expect.
I enjoyed the way it opened: “I got my break and found my wife on the same day. The wife part happened by coincidence, but the break–getting in with Jeev–that was a coincidence I made happen.”
So this story is about stand up comics on the comedy set. The narrator, Ed Brooks, and his friend Richie Hagen are struggling as standups. In fact, they both got in trouble at work for calling in sick when his boss heard them on the radio. But Jeev is doing great. And they agree that they hate him.
Jeev was in town because he needed clean material for his upcoming appearance on The tonight Show. So he was working in small clubs to prefect his act. The audience didn’t know who he was, but he still killed. He was on the same bill as Richie and the narrator, but he seemed oblivious to them. (more…)
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