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Canada Calling: Toronto punk vet S. Earl Hardy goes rootsy on new album Back In Del Rio

Canada Calling: Toronto punk vet S. Earl Hardy goes rootsy on new album Back In Del Rio

One year after returning from an extended music biz sabbatical -- the details of which must never be disclosed -- Toronto punk legend S Earl Hardy has followed up his raging opus Love Kills Slow with another thick slab of garage punk entitled Back In Del Rio. Mutating from sheer

On The Line With... Merle Haggard

On The Line With... Merle Haggard

Keith Richards has got nothing on the Hag. At 73, and recently beating lung cancer, Merle just keeps doing what he’s always done, making great records. And as the title of this latest effort suggests, he isn’t about to change the formula that’s maintained his status as

On The Line With... Emmylou Harris

On The Line With... Emmylou Harris

In a career now approaching four decades, Emmylou Harris has done nearly everything an artist in the roots music field could ever hope to do, from sustaining a career in the face of Nashville’s constantly changing trends, to collaborating with Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Band, Dolly

On The Line With... Kris Kristofferson

On The Line With... Kris Kristofferson

I did this interview just prior to the release of Kris’s new album, Closer To The Bone (New West), for a lengthy career retrospective in the October issue of Exclaim! Click here to read it. This is the full transcript of the interview also posted at my blog, Heartbreak

On The Line With... Corb Lund

On The Line With... Corb Lund

Hi everyone, Here's a recent chat with Corb I've also just posted on my blog, heartbreaktrail.wordpress.com. It's also at www.exclaim.ca. Hope you enjoy! It’s ironic that the head Hurtin’ Albertan’s first album to get a wide release in