{"id":4124,"date":"2012-05-02T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:11:30","slug":"hillbilly-highway-spring-brings-bounty-here-in-pegcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/05\/02\/hillbilly-highway-spring-brings-bounty-here-in-pegcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillbilly Highway – Spring brings bounty here in Pegcity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, we’ve been lucky so far this year here in lovely Winnipeg, MB. No flood, no mosquitoes yet, no ticks. Not yet. And there’s a bunch of great music pumping out of the local folk scene here, too.<\/p>\n

New releases by Jenny Berkel<\/a> and Keri Latimer<\/a> have both rolled across the Stylus<\/em> desk in the past week. Berkel’s \u00a0Here on a Wire<\/em> is a nice little disc, reminiscent of Christine Fellow<\/a>‘s 2 Little Birds <\/em>and the softer moments of The Last One Standing.<\/em> Latimer’s release, Crowsfeet and Greyskull,<\/em> is everything you’d expect from the songstress: beautiful melodies, well crafted tunes and tight arrangements. In fact, Fellow’s even contributes some piano to a couple tracks on\u00a0Crowsfeet and Greyskull. <\/em>Neat!<\/p>\n

Both are great discs to be playing on a grey spring afternoon, sipping tea or nursing a hangover. Check our June\/July edition for reviews of both. That puppy hits the streets June 7th.<\/p>\n

Del Barber’s new disc came out yesterday too. Headwaters <\/em>is Barber’s best<\/a> disc yet, his song writing skills honed sharper than his earlier two releases. Check out my conversation with Del here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Local tunesmith’s Rambling Dan Frechette and JP Hoe and country soul diva Sol James have also got new albums to unveil. I haven’t heard any of them, yet, but am looking forward to giving them a spin shortly. And we will be talking with JP Hoe next week here on the Hillbilly Highway, so make sure to stop on by for that.<\/p>\n

And that’s about all I have time for here this week, friends. Times are fast out here on the Highway these days, so I’ll make like a tree and leaf the fuck out. See you soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Sheldon Birnie Well, we’ve been lucky so far this year here in lovely Winnipeg, MB. No flood, no mosquitoes yet, no ticks. Not yet. And there’s a bunch of great music pumping out of the local folk scene here, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[432,563],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","tag-hillbilly-highway","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}