Last Thursday saw acclaimed Vancouver singer/songwriter, poet and playwright Rodney DeCroo release a new video for the song “Like Jacob When He Felt The Angel’s Touch” directed by Eden Munro in Edmonton.
The song is one of the standouts on DeCroo’s seventh full-length effort, Old Tenement Man, released May 5 on Tonic Records and produced by Lorrie Matheson (Art Bergmann, Rae Spoon) at his Calgary studio Arch Audio. It has received praise from the Vancouver Sun, The Georgia Straight, BeatRoute, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, and other notable media outlets as a sprawling work of unflinching lyric-driven rock and roll, infused with the legacies of Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen. DeCroo’s exceptional body of work includes 8 albums, 3 books of poetry, and a one-man theatre show. All have established DeCroo’s stellar critical reputation, augmented further by the overwhelmingly positive response to Old Tenement Man.
The eastern leg of DeCroo’s tour in support of Old Tenement Man gets underway July 13 in Wakefield, Quebec and continues until the end of the month (see full schedule below).
RODNEY DECROO TOUR DATES:
July 13, WAKEFIELD, QC @ Kaffé 1870
July 14, WINDSOR, ON @ Phog Lounge
July 16, HAMILTON, ON @ This Ain’t Hollywood
July 18, GUELPH, ON @ The Cornerstone
July 19, TEMISKAMING SHORES, ON @ Miner’s Tavern
July 20, TORONTO, ON @ Burdock Music Hall
July 21, Barfly MONTREAL, QC @ Barfly
July 22, PETERBOROUGH, ON @ The Garnet
July 23, TORONTO, ON @ Orchard Bar
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We’ll see Rodney at Phog.
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I just read this in a HuffPo piece
When Peter Mansbridge retires from The National, three roving anchors/journalists will host the program
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nick-fillmore/cbc-is-ready-to-leave-a-decade-of-harper-era-cynicism-behind_a_22584303/?ncid=fcbklnkcahpmg00000008
Hiya! How were the weekends?
Good Afternoon! @Garf, when Tiff & I went to the Peter Mansbridge hosted Foreign Correspondents talk at the Ceeb, Wendy Mesley of all people, told us that this would be the case with the National (Roving Anchors) after he retired. We intercepted her making a b-line straight to the wine bar for a small reception they were hosting after the “talk”.
I like Wendy (aka the former Mrs Mansbridge) I watched her hosting last nights National
We ran into her at a coffee shop last year.
I was never a Peter Mansbridge fan, there was something about him that seemed a little pompous.
I have ALWAYS been a Peter Mansbridge fan, and I guess I don’t find him pompous at all! Lloyd robertson, and lisa Laflamme, now that’s pompousness. But I guess this is like saying you like one band over another, to each their own or “chacun sont gout”
@Janet, It’s probably the fact he was born in the UK (I hear Brits can be like that)
@Garf – my mum’s a Brit, so I doubt it 🙂
@Michael – I agree with you on Lloyd Robertson and Lisa Laflamme too! I watched the CBC news over CTV growing up, so I guess I found Mansbridge the lesser of two evils
I can’t say as I ever was a “fan” of any of them. They were people that talked on tv and that was it. I didn’t like or dislike them. It wasn’t until recent years when Peter Mansbridge has done things showing some of his personality that I formed any opinion of him. I like him.
finally getting a chance to listen to last fridays playlist. i am quite enjoying the ride. i had a flu on friday and then spent saturday and sunday working as well as trying to get morgana jr to study for finals.
@morgana – I am glad you are feeling better. Good luck with the prodding. Thanks for listening and enjoy the ride.
I love the Rodney Decroo track!
My favourite new discoveries of the Polaris Long List are Alaclair Ensemble, Antoine Corriveau, Jesse Reyez and Lido Pimienta.
I am still not sure what my final 5 votes will be. Leif Vollebekk, Weaves and A Tribe Called Red are probables. The other 2 slots I can’t make my mind up on yet.