Articles by Kerry Doole
Juno Week & JunoFest featuring the Beauties, Kevin Drew, Harlan Pepper
Toronto, ON March 23-26
PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2011
The big night for the 40th anniversary of the Juno Awards may be the televised awards, but the preceding week in Toronto featured a whole s...
Steve Dawson
Nightshade
PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2011
Dawson is justifiably an in-demand producer for such roots-based artist as Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps, Old Man Luedecke, the Sojourners a...
Jay Aymar
Passing Through
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
Given the glut of urban hipsters doing roots music, it's heartening to see that there are still populist hardcore Canadian troubadours maki...
Chris Tarry
Rest Of The Story
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
Not your average jazz CD, this one. You see, it comes packaged in a book, featuring four short stories written by multi-talented bassist/co...
Kim Stockwood
Back to the Water
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
You can take the girl off the Rock, but you can't take the Rock out of the girl. That's certainly the case with Newfoundland-born-and-raise...
Danny Click
Life Is A Good Place
PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011
He may be a little too mainstream in sound and approach to appeal to the alt-country fan, but Frisco, TX-based songsmith Click has plenty t...
Exene Cervenka
The Excitement of Maybe
PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2011
Exene Cervenka could be excused for sitting on her laurels. Via X and the Knitters, she has, since the late '70s, been a towering figure in...
Juno Decades: Songs of the '00s
Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON March 5
PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2011
The Juno Awards' Decades series concluded with Songs of the '00s, an event that once again drew a capacity crowd. Produced by Toronto label...