Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Bobby Timmons

  Moanin’ Blues

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Perhaps if he hadn’t died at the age of just 38 in 1974, Bobby Timmons’ name would be accorded the same reverence in soul-jazz...

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  Meat Purveyors

  More Songs About Buildings and Cows

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  The Meat Purveyors may be having a bit of a lark with bluegrass and country, but it’s no joke for them. These relative youngsters fro...

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  The Sadies

  Pure Diamond Gold

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  On last year’s debut, Precious Moments, the Sadies’ bluegrass instrumentals, country death songs and twangy rebel rock made it...

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  Sally Timms

  Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments…For Lost Buckaroos

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Remove Sally Timms from her natural environment with the Mekons and their shenanigans, and she’s a credible singer of lilting traditi...

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  June of 44

  In the Fishtank

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  One has to laud June of 44’s prolific output and their decidedly non-commercial aesthetic approach, which places equal value on both...

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  Parts Unknown

  Airshow

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Parts Unknown are indeed one of the great unknown quantities in Toronto’s scruffy pop scene, which has suffered from neglect long eno...

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  June of 44

  Anahata

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  June of 44 have always struck me as the most workmanlike of the alleged post-rock movement; it’s made them both the most endearing an...

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  Blue Rags

  Eat at Joe’s

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

  Blue Rags seem like a band that has read its turn-of-the-century Midwest American naturalism: the cover art is a dense collage of iconograp...