Articles by Michael Barclay

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  Various

  Modern Miracles in Science and Medicine

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  A sampler from a new Calgary label, Modern Miracles... features four acts with a couple of tracks each. Rayovaq leads the charge with some...

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  Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts

  Beneath The Country Underdog

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  "Papa was a rodeo/mama was a rock 'n' roll band," sings the insurgent country crooner while covering the Magnetic Fields. Like Lynne, Hogan...

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  Shelby Lynne

  I Am Shelby Lynne

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  There's a critical hoopla surrounding Shelby Lynne, who has deserted her repressively mainstream Nashville past for a Dusty Springfield-in-...

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  Skydiggers

  Still Restless

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  With their 1992 Canadiana classic, Restless lost in label limbo, the venerable roots rockers resurrected the original demos, dusted them of...

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  Joseph Arthur

  Come To Where I'm From

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2000

  More proof positive that Peter Gabriel has far better taste in "international" acts than Western ones - recall that he launched the career...

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  Patrick Walsh

  Broken Chair

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Most lucky small towns have that certain someone: ubiquitous on local stages in many incarnations, maybe a poet and/or playwright as well,...

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  Various

  A Certain Man: Songs of Bernie Martin

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Bernie Martin, according to the liner notes in posthumous tribute A Certain Man, was a friend to many Peterborough artists, but a reclusive...

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  Silent Treatment

  Splitsville or Bust

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Homespun indie rock from Vancouver with boy-girl vocals that shows promise, even if everything isn’t clicking just yet. Yvette Marlea...