Stylus checks out Sir Paul McCartney

Photo by Andrew Mazurak
Photo by Andrew Mazurak

by Zach Fleisher

In putting this piece forward, I have to acknowledge a fundamental bias in my writing a review for a Paul McCartney show; I’m a Beatles fanatic. I grew up listening to the Fab Four (though I didn’t actually listen to Sgt. Pepper side to side until five years ago) through  drives from end to end of the Canadian prairie. In grade five, I fell asleep every night listening to Abbey Road on a CD with only one track for the entire album and no way to change which song I was listening to. As often as I would fall asleep to the gentle and soothing tones of “Something,” I did make the consistent effort to listen until the medley of broken songs at the end, which more often than not proves to the be the enduring legacy of Paul McCartney’s musical career.

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Hillbilly Highway – Fred Eaglesmith roars on through town, heading East

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by Sheldon Birnie

What can I say about Fred J Eaglesmith that hasn’t already been said, by me or a hundred other writers into the grittiest and roughest roots music out there on the Highway? Not a whole dang lot, at least not in less than 800 words. To put it in terms that Fred himself might deal in, Eaglesmith is, quite simply, the Real Deal. Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Fred Eaglesmith roars on through town, heading East”