Articles by Fish Griwkowsky

Corb Lund

Sweetheart of the Rodeo

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Without flinching, Corb Lund grabs the remains of a gopher — more of a candy wrapper, really — and holds it up to the baby ravens in the ra...

Willie Nelson

Rexall Place, Edmonton AB - July 16, 2005

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

It takes special science to woo a cavernous coliseum crowd packed with both stage-rushing fake tits and gleaming false teeth in every secti...

Whitey Houston vs. C'mon

New City Likwid Lounge, Edmonton AB - May 19, 2005

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

Expectations break hearts - anyone who loves knows it. So there was some trepidation at the idea of two of Canada's actual (rather than hyp...

Tolan McNeil

There'll Always Be a Salesman

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Now everyone gets to understand what is meant by the "genius of Tolan McNeil.” If by nature of his tight connection with Carolyn Mark (and...

Geoff Berner

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Geoff Berner has flowered some on his latest, thanks specifically to a firsthand immersion into the domain of Romanian Klezmer music and a...

Entrance

Wandering Stranger

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

It’s easy and even fun to question Entrance’s credibility as a bluesman. He’s 21, has a dashing gait and travels the continent — it doesn’t...

Shuyler Jansen

The Hobotron

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Like the tickle of well-meaning robot centipedes in your bed, the constant electronic bleeps and blips of Shuyler Jansen’s otherwise plugge...

Uncas

Sunny Uncas

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Full of wild and moonshiny country music that strays deeply into the psychedelic, bursting with compositional imagination and layered singi...