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He's your singing, songwriting, band leading, scheming, country punk, folk, smartassgrass troubadour based out of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Yukon tour up date February 5th, 2010 Greetings from the Yukon Territories where we are playing all over on our 3 week tour. We go from Watson Lake in the south east to Haines Junction in the southwest all the way up to Old Crow, the most northerly settlement in the Yukon. It is really beautiful up here and the people are swell. Cold though eh. But then again it was 28 below in Wakefield Quebec the other day for dragonfest so welcome to Canadadia. Jason insists on doing most of the driving so I am left to my own devices on the passenger side. That includes much rambling on and fidgeting. Also I am making a movie of our adventures on my little camera. The tour ends up here with a weekend in Dawson City where we are staying and playing at Bombay Peggys, the renovated brothel that I lived in back in 1985 when it was a condemned building on a swamp by the ferry to cross the Yukon river. That is where I started playing music for real. It is also where I stepped on a nail and was on crutches when my love of two years told me she was leaving me to go to Mexico and think about life. Even though I had it coming I wept like the broken man I was while riding on the crappy bike that I used to get around with my bum foot. I rode along side her bus as it pulled out of town and can still see her beautiful face in the window of the greyhound. Such saddness I had never known. Returning home that day I was sure I would suffocate as the air had become lead. Each breath went towards another moan and my heart begged for an end. I went in to work at the Midnight Sun Hotel that night but could not stop weeping so my boss told me to leave. I guess the customers were getting uncomfortable with their pathetic wretch of a waiter. Mercifully my kindly british friend Graham insisted that I come and stay with him and the lovely Jocelyn Mcdowell until I got my shit together and I will never forgot them for that. It is pretty tough to have a broken heart, no running water or electricity and a bum foot all at the same time, eh. But that was a long long time ago now... Back to Top Happy New Year January 2nd, 2010 And what a year it will be. Although it started with such sadness and strife that the earthquake in Haiti has brought to an already troubled place. Our hearts and efforts go out the people of that part of the island. Please donate what you can to one of the many charities that are helping out directly there. I am gathering my warm clothes up for my tour of the Yukon in February. We just had a big weekend of birthday shows with Jenny Whiteley to get ready. I am so looking forward to returning to Dawson City where I lived in 1984 and played my first real show. We opened for Doug & the Slugs at Diamond Tooth Gerties to a huge crowd. I recall having puffy flock of Seagulls hair and a baggy white shirt ala Sienfeld... All the best in 2010 Back to Top Holiday Fever December 10th, 2009 It is that time of the year again when we put on a big rock show for the Salvation Army emergency relief fund. 15 years running and we still got it going. This time we are at the Mansion in Kingston for 2 shows in one night featuring Sarah Harmer, P.S. I Love You, Sheesham Crowe, Luther Wright, Chris Brown, Kelly & Ball xmas xplosion, Paul Langois of the Tragically Hip and Awna Teixeira of po girl. Tickets are limited and available at the club or Zap Records in Kingston. First show is 7:30 and is all ages and the 2nd show is at 11 and is 19 plus. Merry merry merry Back to Top News Archive