{"id":6691,"date":"2013-04-09T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:19:03","slug":"corin-raymond-the-sundowners-paper-nickels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/04\/09\/corin-raymond-the-sundowners-paper-nickels\/","title":{"rendered":"CORIN RAYMOND & THE SUNDOWNERS – Paper Nickels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/b>There is much to be said about the story behind Paper Nickels<\/em>, the elaborate and inviting packaging, or any of the over a dozen songwriters whose tunes are on display. But this is not the space to do so [ed. note: check our feature<\/a>\u00a0for more info]<\/em>. Let\u2019s focus instead on the music that Corin Raymond & The Sundowners recorded live over two nights in Toronto last year. The performances are top notch folk music, with Corin\u2019s voice (and trademark stage banter between tracks) front row centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Sundowners, playing stand-up bass, piano and squeeze box, offer spot on but understated accompaniment to Raymond over both discs, with Treasa Levasseur on backup vocals, and taking centre stage for a beautiful rendition<\/a> of Jonathan Byrd\u2019s \u201cLittle Bird\u201d midway through the first disc. With upbeat, tongue and cheek tunes like Bob Hannan\u2019s \u201cIf I Were You Instead of Me,\u201d A.G. Olmstead\u2019s \u201cThe Lord Loves a Wino,\u201d<\/a> and Rob Vaarmeyer & Corin\u2019s \u201cA Big Truck Brought It\u201d cohabitating nicely with tear jerkers like Scott Nolan\u2019s \u201cDutch\u201d and Max Metrault\u2019s \u201cAnastasia.”<\/div>\n
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Stand out tracks, for me, are Corin & Co\u2019s versions of Rob Vaarmeyer\u2019s \u201cOl’ Fort Mac,\u201d Andrew Neville\u2019s \u201cBrand New Song,\u201d and Ridley Bent<\/a> & Dustin Bentall\u2019s \u201cNine Inch Nails.\u201d The tune that inspired the whole disc (and caper itself), \u201cDon\u2019t Spend It Honey,\u201d is also as beautiful a trailer trash love ballad as has ever been penned, north or south of the border. If you consider yourself a fan of folk music, you better be planning to pick this up if you haven\u2019t done so already. (Independent, dontspendithoney.ca<\/a>) Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is much to be said about the story behind Paper Nickels, the elaborate and inviting packaging, or any of the over a dozen songwriters whose tunes are on display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,212,364,709,803,840],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-andrew-neville","tag-corin-raymond","tag-folks","tag-paper-nickels","tag-rob-vaarmeyer","tag-scott-nolan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","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=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}