Our Basement:
When I was 15, I had a high school boyfriend whose mother was a free-spirited, unconventional, and lenient single parent who would often leave us unattended with her impressive collection of classic records. Upon her departure, we had a custom of randomly selecting an album and listening while we laid together on the sofa. One day, we selected Joni Mitchell’s Blue, and in that moment, hearing her voice and those chords, my passion for songwriting was born. Joni’s songs went straight to the marrow of my heart.
When the flighty, young love between my high school boyfriend and I dissolved, and throughout all of the subsequent broken hearts that followed, Joni Mitchell was always there – inviting me to be sad while assuring that life would go on. It’s in the memory of those assailable and heartsick moments I so often shared with Joni that “Songs of Blue” was written.
Thank you for listening. “Songs of Blue” is the first single off our forthcoming, sophomore record I Am You.
Scarlett of Running Red Lights
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This “Hi Our Basement” thing sure opens up a whole bunch of bands I had no idea existed. It’s kind-of cool
@krib, I’m glad to hear that you like them
krib, agreed. Big lack of that since R3 went and became living dead.
Shawn Mendes is currently on BBC1 (I know you can’t see it but I thought you might like to know)
Echoing @kribs sentiment!
Following a Bandcamp link from here (for a different band) last week I came upon this artist;
Sharing is good:)
My husband can’t stand Joni Mitchel. He loves Sheelagh Rogers and apparently Joni was rude to her in an interview. I adore Blue. Songs of Blue is growing on me …
I had to go look up who Shawn Mendes is.
I think I’ve heard that song There’s Nothing Holding me Back.
I think.
not really my thing
You’re listening to a Candian, and I’m listening to Young Fathers right now on Spotify
(Re Joni & S. Rogers) Funny, I’ve never been able to dislike an artist’s art on account of his or her behaviour. Take Frank Sinatra, long known as a Not Nice Guy. But his singin’…
I suppose if I imagined hard enough, I could find circumstances… But it hasn’t tended to happen, perhaps because I if not expect, at least am not surprised when it turns out X has been a dick in private life.
There are quite a few artists that I will agree are bloody good singers but I am not interested in
@b from o to be fair he is not fond of her singing technique either. What is it called, that singing off key on purpose?
@ b from o & @garfielduk if I know X is a nasty character I tend not to support their efforts by listing to their music. I know for sure that I don’t know for sure if X is really terrible or X that I think is sold really is because I am part of the general public and not their BFF but I try to support good people.
Oh, anyone have a link to watch all the stuff I missed from Toronto’s Echo Beach? I watched Tribe Called Red with my kid but that is it. Looked like CBC put on a good show.
Going to save it for when I can take more screen time.
For now, I must sign off and go and do my physio exercises.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/CBCMusic/videos/?ref=page_internal has all the main stage videos
https://www.facebook.com/pg/QonCBCRadio/videos/?ref=page_internal has all the q stage videos
just scroll down to all videos
Sweet!
Thanks @garfielduk.
Have a good day.
Hi all!
I wish I had been at that CBC Music Fest. It looked like a good one.
Garf and I are both doing our best to share new music with you. Please share about bands you think we should know about.
These teens from Ochapowace did this song at the event I was organizing on Friday night. It was one of those goose bump moments for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh85jXaPEv8&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for sharing that DBS