I haven't been getting out like I used to but these last few days have been chock full of great music and more to come. And there will be jamming... The Women's Blues Revue at Massey Hall was, as always, an elevating experience and I'm still basking in the amazing theatrical re-telling of Faust with the music of Robert Johnson and Paganini that projected out of the fertile brain of Raha Javanfar to the stage of Soulpepper in the Distillery. This is the final week so get a ticket and support some very tale
My old bandmate Maurice Singfield just posted this clip from a reunion concert of the band we had back in the 70s. We played a lakeside dance hall called the Terrace-Inn every Thursday, Friday and Saturday all summer long (you don't see steady gigs like that anymore). This is a song I wrote about the Terrace and this morning I'm thinking about the cat who produced it, David Baxter who is in hospital and not doing well. Also remembering a couple of other producers, Paul "Eggs" Benedict and Frazier Mohawk
Coco Montoya played the Revival in Toronto with his crack band. This was the last Hugh’s Room show at an alternate venue. They are now totally settled into their new digs at 296 Broadview. Coco’s organist/second guitarist Jeff Paris was a stand-out. His playing was kinda “out there” at the beginning of the show but then he settled down and dug in and provided some great organ flourishes but when he left the keyboard rig and picked up a guitar I was amazed at his prowess on slide, and all the other guitar st