The first seven (yikes!) posts in this series can be found here, here, here, here, here, here and here. As my eighth day on the road began, I was greeted… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip…Song #77/250: Trick Rider by Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles…Family Road Trip Edition: Part VIII
Welcome to the final post in this series. I find it difficult to believe that forty-nine posts have come and gone, with today marking post #50. Where has the time… Read More »Keepin’ It Classy….Composition #50/50: Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op.125 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Green Day are one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the past thirty years. They have sold over 75 million albums worldwide, have earned multiple gold and platinum… Read More »Who’s Punk?! What’s the Score?!…Song #9/21: American Idiot by Green Day
The stories behind great Canadian songs that mention great Canadian places. I grew up in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Waves from the mighty Atlantic Ocean smashed into coal-streaked cliffs that… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip: Song #12/250: Small Of My Heart by Madison Violet
