Hillbilly Highway – Afternoon drunk with Mag 7s
by Sheldon Birnie I had a couple beers with Matt and Andy from the Mag 7s this afternoon — hard...
Hillbilly Highway – One Hundred Dollars
by Sheldon Birnie “I think of [Winnipeg] as a really tough city, a city that has survived a lot,” Simone...
Hillbilly Highway – Cruising the Interstates to First Avenue
by Sheldon Birnie The Hillbilly Highway crosses many borders. Provincial, state, international: it doesn’t give a fuck. I cruised myself...
Hillbilly Highway – Drive-By Truckers passing on your left
by Sheldon Birnie The Drive-By Truckers are a band from the Muscle Shoals, Alabama / Athens, Georgia areas. They play...
Hillbilly Highway – Gettin’ loose with Those Darlins
by Sheldon Birnie Those Darlins are a group of three babes and one sweet dude who rock. The formula is...
Hillbilly Highway – Pit stop with Tim Hus
Tim Hus is a Canadiana Country singer based out of Calgary, AB. Born in Nelson, B.C., Hus has traveled the Hillbilly Highway back and forth across the Great White North countless times, by train, by truck and by thumb. On Thursday, October 20th, he rolls into the Times Change(d) here in Winnipeg for an intimate set in one of his favourite watering holes.
Hillbilly Highway – High & Lonesome Times
Sometimes when you’re cruising down the highway, some slick somebody cuts you off and burns away, leaving you in their...
Hillbilly Highway – Fred rides 6 Volts hard
I’ve been listening to Fred Eaglesmith’s latest, 6 Volts, since it dropped into my mailbox a couple weeks back. The...
Hillbilly Highway – Back on the Nowhere Road
There is a road that stretches back in time, back beyond the interweb, beyond compact discs, cassette tapes, vinyl records and gramophones. It winds between hills and hollers, follows riverbanks and lakeshores deep into the woods and across tall grass prairie. It picks up from quays and travels back across seas, crossing itself time and again in backwater voids, where wind whips dead branches against nothing and scavenger birds craw out in vain.