Articles by David McPherson

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  Silos

  When the Telephone Rings

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  Take it from me,When the Telephone Rings, answer it damn it. That is, only if you want to hear one of the year’s best alt-country, in-your-...

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  Various

  The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

  In the early 20th century, Mother Maybelle Carter picked up a guitar and developed her own unique playing style that artists still emulate...

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  Mike Alviano

  Radiate

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2004

  Many familiar with the Kitchener-Waterloo music scene of the early 1990s recall the band Strange Days. The group’s lead singer Shannon Lyon...

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  Jay Farrar / Shannon Lyon

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON - June 17, 2004

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Those that ventured down to the royal music bar on Toronto's Bloor Street strip on June 17 were rewarded with an evening of acoustic bliss....

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  John and the Sisters

  John and the Sisters

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  This new album by Kevin Breit is a blues smorgasbord and a mishmash of musical styles. The Sisters here are actually not of the female vari...

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  Béla Fleck & Edgar Meyer

  Music For Two

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  One wouldn’t normally equate the bass and the banjo as complementary instruments — especially as the dominant pair of instruments for a cla...

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  Shannon Lyon

  Someday Mourning

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004

  Following Bound, which was released in the fall of 2003, alt-country troubadour extraordinaire Shannon Lyon releases his second live disc o...

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  Gordon Lightfoot

  Harmony

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  At 65, Canada’s famed troubadour returns with his 20th album — a historic feat considering the Orillia native was felled during a concert i...