Music Before the Money

List of Buyers at Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week

Kim Kinrade — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:57:58 +0000

Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week is featuring new buyers to the list of delegates at this year's festival and conference in Yarmouth November 5 – 8.

Mary Traverse: First Lady of Folk

Kim Kinrade — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:10:20 +0000

Mary Traverse also began the "white girl look" for most of the 1960's: straight hair with bangs. Meanie Safka, Grace Slick, Judy Collins, Jonie Mitchell and many others adopted this appearance.

Ringo Was a Clock

Kim Kinrade — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:35:53 +0000

Like Gene Krupa, he revolutionized what people thought of drummers. And although Ringo was no Gene Krupa, he was a great drummer for the Beatles.

Are the Beatles Androids?

Kim Kinrade — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:58:54 +0000

The Beatles deserve to be given to a new generation. Years ago a musicologist was once laughed at for saying the Beatles will be thought of in the same terms as Beethoven and Mozart. Even I didn't believe him back then. But now I do.

Denny Doherty Comes Alive at The Atlantic Film Festival

Kim Kinrade — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:08:35 +0000

Long-time friend and collaborator, Paul Ledoux, has once again brought the legend of the Mamas and Papas to life with Here I Am: Denny Doherty and the Mams and Papas. Taking countless hours of interviews, home movies, stage performances and rehearsals Ledoux and executive-producer, Greg Jones, have created an amazing film in honor of his friend, a documentary that shows Denny as a great singer from the north end of Halifax who made music history in a group that, for a short time rivaled The Beatles.

Woodstock: How Far Have We Come?

Kim Kinrade — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:34:09 +0000

With the death of Edward Kennedy another piece of the 1960's falls. Many historians feel that the '60's began with the inauguration of President Kennedy and ended with the botched Woodstock-style concert at Altamont Speedway in California on December 6, 1969.

In Honor of Les Paul: 1915-2009

Kim Kinrade — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:20:30 +0000

“It’s a trick I picked up from old Les Paul.” - Gary Busey in The Buddy Holley Story when asked about overdubbing the process of recording another track on the same piece of tape Mid-way through my list of “Guitars-That-I-Should-Have-Kept”is the 1959 Les Paul “TV Special,” one that I got in a trade for a 1976 Wurlitzer [...]

Woodstock: Album Cover Couple Still Holds the Vibes

Kim Kinrade — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:06:04 +0000

I remember when the album Woodstock came out. It was a three-disc set that we quickly wore out (I still have the scratched copy) and I also bought it on 8-track. The only problem with that – besides obvious mechanical failures – was that I’m Going Home by Ten Years After was cut in half [...]

Woodstock: Wavy Gravy

Kim Kinrade — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:32:26 +0000

Good morning! . . . What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000! - Hugh Romney, aka “Wavy Gravy,” at Woodstock There are certain moments in a person’s life when a chance meeting, vocalization or other incident engraves that person’s name in history forever. For famous movie star Lana Turner, it was walking into [...]

Woodstock: Canned Heat

Kim Kinrade — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:24:56 +0000

I always loved the name “Canned Heat.” It came from an 1928 Tommy Johnson song about an alcoholic who couldn’t afford booze and had begun ingesting Sterno as a substitute, which is also called “canned heat.” Joining together in 1965 Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor and Adolpho “Fito” de la Parra became one [...]