What are you listening to NOW?

**robertlouis** · 06-21-2012

Originally Posted by runningdownthatdream

This is one of my favourite songs.......plays in my head whenever I get pissed off! Cockburn is a great songwriter. Stompin Tom grows on a person.....couldn't get into his music when I first heard it but the honesty is infectious. You might like this guy:

I love Ron Sexsmith - see him live whenever he comes to the UK. Another terrific songwriter. And we both play the same model Taylor!

**robertlouis** · 06-21-2012

Daniel Lanois is a great talent - wonderful producer too.

Robbie Robertson of The Band is my songwriting hero - fantastic ability to bring history alive in song. This song for me is his finest moment, the sad story of the French Canadians displaced and expelled by the British at the end of the Seven Years War. And, of course, Robbie hails from Toronto.

Two lines in the last verse tear me up every time:

"Set my compass north, I got winter in my blood"

**runningdownthatdream** · 06-21-2012

Originally Posted by robertlouis

Daniel Lanois is a great talent - wonderful producer too.

Robbie Robertson of The Band is my songwriting hero - fantastic ability to bring history alive in song. This song for me is his finest moment, the sad story of the French Canadians displaced and expelled by the British at the end of the Seven Years War. And, of course, Robbie hails from Toronto.

Two lines in the last verse tear me up every time:

"Set my compass north, I got winter in my blood"

Indeed..................his self-titled first solo album is a thing of lyrical beauty. Somewhere Down the Crazy River is especially good!

**robertlouis** · 06-21-2012

Last piece of "Canadiana" for tonight lol.

Kate and Anna McGarrigle. This song has an almost religious sensibility to it, and I find it incredibly moving, especially those fragile harmonies. We'll miss you, Kate.

**runningdownthatdream** · 06-21-2012

**Prospero** · 06-21-2012

Percy faith ! PERCY FAITH!!!! Good grief... whatever next.

Though maybe this is better.... the man who inspired the Nigerian people to resist military dictatorship (and more recentky was the subject a great london stage musical)

**Prospero** · 06-21-2012

Oh and Acadian Driftwood is a magnificent song - possibily by favourite by The Band There is also a very good rendition around by US girl trio The Roches (really!)