Articles by Brent Hagerman

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  Buckwheat Zydeco

  Classics

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Buckwheat Zydeco took his surname after serving an apprenticeship under then king of zydeco, Clifton Chenier. Buckwheat went on to give zyd...

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  Reid Jamieson

  The Noise in My Chest

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  It's hard to argue with Reid Jamieson, especially when he sweetly coos "the television lies" on the opening track to his new EP. In fact, t...

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  Poets

  Nothing to Stay For and Nowhere to Go

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  The desolation inherent in the album title is represented in Tyler Shipley's vocals and lyrics but thankfully not in the band's music. Sole...

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  Hot Toddy

  The Salty Sessions Vol.1

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Hot Toddy are the quintessential herring chokers. New Brunswick doesn't often register as a hot bed of musical talent but this acoustic tri...

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  Beau Kavanagh & the Broken Hearted

  Good Day For Dyin'

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Beau Kavanagh's second record begins with a throaty acoustic guitar peddling underneath the Montreal native's coy spoke-sung voice — a nice...

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  Don Rooke

  Atlas Travel

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Don Rooke took a journey into an atlas inside his mind, conjured up faraway places he openly admits he knows very little about and construc...

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  Various

  BYOP (Bring Your Own Plywood): Calgary Does Connors

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Stompin' Tom is due for a renaissance. Perhaps he needs a Rick Rubin to help reinvent him for a new generation — or maybe to release a revv...

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  Various

  Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  The vanguard of contemporary left wing music and political activism helps out on the final instalment of Appleseed's Seeger series but, whi...