12 Videos of Christmas: 9-12

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Click here for more Vintage Carols That Are Really About Sex (mature content)

Links: Lennie Gallant, More Lennie Gallant Stories, John Dunsworth, Video above courtesy of Tell Tale



Links: Marshall Dane, Video above courtesy of Marshall Dane



Links: Tim Hicks, More Tim Hicks Stories,  Lindsay Ell, More Chuck Berry Covers/Stories, More Performances from the CCMA Holiday Special, Video above courtesy of CBC Music



Links: Paul James, More Paul James Stories, Video above courtesy of Paul James

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12 Videos of Christmas: 5-8

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Phil Kane (lead vocals and acoustic guitar), Sean Pinchin (steel guitar), Doug Giffin (mandolin), Dave Field (bass), Bob Gaudreau (drums), Neil MacNaughton and Paul De Bellis (background vocals)

Links: Brief Shining Moments, Video above courtesy of Music Mayhem and Moree



Links: Chelsea Crites, More Chelsea Crites Stories, Video above courtesy of Brian Berneker



Links: Trevor Strong, More Arrogant Worms (Trevor's band) Stories, Video above courtesy of Trevor Strong



Links: Drifters, Video above courtesy of Simos Samaras

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News Roundup (Cindy Dell, Treasa Levasseur, Magik Company, Dwayne LaForme)

New Christmas Single from Treasa Levasseur

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News 

Please note: There won't be another News Roundup until January 1, 2015.

Local

• Barbershop Podcast with Cindy Dell
  
  
  
  Links: Cindy Dell, More Cindy Dell Stories, Video above courtesy of Barber Shop Podcast
• Dan Medakovic's Hi-Tech Chase

World

• Latest Lineup of the Yardbirds Dissolves
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul Butterfield, Ringo and Joan Jett, Lou Reed in 2015 Rock Hall of Fame
• No Depression Magazine's Top 50 Albums of 2014
• Blues Grammy Nominees
• Blues Music Award Nominees
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, White Stripes producer/engineer John Hampton passes

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Blasts From the Past 

• 2009: Performer of the Week: Kirby
• 2010: Videos from Ginger St. James, Dan Medakovic, Uncorked)
• 2011: Videos of Smoke Wagon Blues Band@Plough and Harrow
• 2012: News Roundup w Tuba4, Crowbar and more
• 2013: 12 Videos of Christmas (1-4)

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Recently Added

Main List of Sites

• Hamilton Nights
• Northern Ontario Country Music Association

Our Performer List

• Cover Story
• Tony Furtado
• Groove Merchants
• Joe Hocaluk
• Shannon Lyon
• Magik Company
  
  
  
  Video above courtesy of Magik Company
  
  
• Skirt Check
• Trio Jazz
• Steve Wood

Our Venue List

• Red Chevron (Guelph)

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Birthdays

Friday, December 19

• Joey Balducci (Blind Mule, Spherical Productions)
• Dwayne LaForme
  
  
  
  Links: More Dwayne LaForme Stories, Video above courtesy of Joel Johnson
  
  
• John Simon (Hammer Daddies)

Saturday, December 20

• Roadkill Bill (RIP)

Monday, December 22

• David Crossley (Paperboys, Deacons)
• Darcy Hepner
• Dylan Wickens

Sunday, December 28

• Aalia Kesari 

Monday, December 29

• Matthew de Zoete

Tuesday, December 30

• David Cross (IN2U) 
• Ben Somer

Wednesday, December 31

• Colin Butler
• Mike Daley (Fraser/Daley)
• Rob Kirkham (Neon Rain)

Thursday, January 1

• Ron Cole (Banned From Heaven)
• Kim Doolittle

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12 Videos of Christmas: 1-4

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Links: Bryan Rason, More Elvis Covers/Stories, Video above courtesy of Bryan Rason




Links: Killin' Time Band, More Killin' Time Stories, Video above courtesy of Killin' Time



Links: Tony Sciara, Video above courtesy of PaulDuncanBently



Links: Jacob Moon, More Jacob Moon Stories, Trevor Dick, Video above courtesy of Jacob Moon

More from the 12 Videos of Christmas

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Katherine Wheatley, Tannis Slimmon and Jude Vadala Team Up For An Angelic Holiday CD

Boreal is an amazing, trio that wield some heavenly harmonies to celebrate the season.  Their debut is an  angelic holiday CD, Winter's Welcome.  Each one is a world-class artist in her own right but together, they create something spectacular.

Composed of Guelph's Tannis Slimmon and Jude Vadala with Katherine Wheatley from Toronto, these ladies can really create a sense of warmth and wonder.  Listening to these tracks will bring out the magic of the season in anyone.

Filled mainly with sensational, original tracks, this CD also has a few classics such as Carol of the Bells, I'll Be Home for Christmas and Silent Night.  Whether old or new, these songs have a radience that will raise your spirits.

This wonderful trio doesn't play often so you may want to pick up a copy of the disc at their online store or download it through cdbaby.



Video above courtesy of Philip Bast

Blast from the Past: Katherine Wheatley and Others at a Private Show

Links: Boreal, More Christmas Posts, More CD Releases

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Local Stars on Top Country's Best 50 Songs of 2014 List! Vote for Your Faves!

TopCountry.ca have chosen their favourite 50 Songs of 2014 and they want you to chose the top 3!  Local country superstars from Burlington (Tebey), St. Catharines (Tim Hicks) and Guelph (The Reklaws) are just some of the picks.

Help our area artists out by clicking here and commenting on their post

Wake Me Up - Tebey ft. Emerson Drive



Links: Tebey, More Tebey Stories, Video above courtesy of Tebey

Here Comes The Thunder – Tim Hicks



Links: Tim Hicks, More Tim Hicks Stories, Video above courtesy of Tim Hicks

Seeing Stars – The Reklaws



Links: The Reklaws, More Reklaws Stories, Video above courtesy of the Reklaws

3-2-1 – Brett Kissel
Alive – Madeline Merlo
American Kids – Kenny Chesney
Another Man’s Gold – Dean Brody
Bartender – Lady Antebellum
Beachin’ – Jake Owen
Burnin’ It Down – Jason Aldean
Cheap Wine and Cigarettes – Jess Moskaluke
Cop Car – Keith Urban
County Line – High Valley
Dirt – Florida Georgia Line
Drunk Heart – One More Girl
Drunk On A Plane – Dierks Bentley
Dust – Eli Young Band
Fallin’ Over You – Chad Brownlee
Forever Summer – Paul Brandt
Friends of Mine – Jason Blaine
Girl In A Country Song – Maddie and Tae
Gravy – The Stellas
I Only Smoke When I Drink – Small Town Pistols
If She Wants This Town – Autumn Hill
If You Ask Me To – MacKenzie Porter
Leave The Night On – Sam Hunt
Like A Cowboy – Randy Houser
Lookin’ For That Girl – Tim McGraw
Mud – The Road Hammers
Never Didn’t Love You – Bobby Wills
Pass It Around – Deric Ruttan
Perfect Storm – Brad Paisley
Play It Again – Luke Bryan
Quarterback – Kira Isabella
Rock and Roll Again – Blackberry Smoke
Run – Blackjack Billy, The Road Hammers and Doc Walker
Shut Me Up – Lindsay Ell
Slow Rollin’ – Dallas Smith
Some Songs – Terri Clark
Somethin’ Bad – Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood
Something In The Water – Carrie Underwood
Take It On Back – Chase Bryant
Talladega – Eric Church
That’s How I Like It – Doc Walker
The Promise – Sturgill Simpson
Up All Night – Jon Pardi
Whatever She’s Got – David Nail
Where A Farm Used To Be – Gord Bamford
Whiskey In My Water – Tyler Farr
Yeah – Joe Nichols

Blast from the Past: Local Artists Nominated for Top Country Awards

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2014 Canadian Folk Music Award Winners

Unfortunately, no local musicians won a 10th Annual Canadian Folk Award. The kudos were handed out in Ottawa at the end of November. Matt Andersen whose current album, Weightless features co-writes from Hamilton's Tom Wilson and Niagara's Suzie Vinnick got the nod for Contemporary Singer of the Year.

Here's a full list of winners

• Solo Artist : Lennie Gallant
  
  
  
  Links: More Lennie Gallant Stories, Video above courtesy of Christian Gallant
  
  
• Contemporary Singer: Matt Andersen
  
  
  
  Links: More Matt Andersen Stories, Video above courtesy of Kelly Mark
  
  
• Contemporary Album: Strumbellas: We Still Move On Dance Floors
  
  
  
  Links: More Strumbellas Stories, Video above courtesy of the Strumbellas
  
  
• Traditional Album: Coig: Five
• Vocal Group: The High Bar Gang
• Children’s Album: Fred Penner: Where In The World
• Instrumental Group: The Andrew Collins Trio
• Instrumental Solo Artist: Jayme Stone
• Ensemble: The Fretless
• Pushing The Boundaries Award: Tanya Tagaq
• French Songwriter Les Hay Babies
• Aboriginal Songwriter: Amanda Rheaume
• World Solo Artist: Quique Escamilla
• English Songwriter: Shari Ulrich
• Young Performer: Kacy and Clayton
• Traditional Singer: Mélisande
• New/Emerging Artist: The Bros. Landreth
• World Group Artist: Moustafa Kouyaté and Romain Malagnoux
• Producer: Tom Terrell and Karl Falkenham (City Ghosts by The Modern Grass)

Blast from the Past: The 2013 Winners

Links: CFMA, More CFMA Stories

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Oakville's Neil MacNaughton Takes Listeners on Wonderful, Wild Ride

Travelling the borderline between Classic Rock and Folk, Pieces of the Trip, the latest CD from Oakville's Neil MacNaughton, will take you on a wonderful, wild ride.  You won't be sorry you took this amazing musical outing.

There's the semi-spacey opening track, Wide Open Spaces, folky guitar/harmonica combos and onward to the funky, jazzy trombones scattered throughout.  Each stop has something astounding to offer.

Joining Neil (who does vocals, acoustic guitar and many other instruments) on this magnificent journey is James MacKay (guitar), Luke Dante (guitar, banjitar), Paul Dante (bass), Dave Toms (drums) as well as vocalists Jessica Jacklin and Lisa Seiler.

Head on down to one of Neil's incredible live shows to pickup this CD or order it through his website.

Video above courtesy of Neil MacNaughton





Videos above courtesy of Music Mayhem and More

Links: Neil MacNaughton, More CD Releases

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News Roundup (Hell Bent Rockers, D'Eve Archer, Joe Hocaluk)

Click here for more of our cartoons

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News 

Local

• Barbershop Podcast with the HellBent Rockers
  
  
  
  Links: HellBent Rockers, More HellBent Rockers Stories, Video above courtesy of Barber Shop Podcast
  
  
• Top Country Interview w Tebey

World

• Grammy Nominees
• Aerosmith's Joe Perry Releases Christmas EP
• Bob Dylan to Release Album of Sinatra Covers
• Ian MacLagan (Faces) Passes

Blasts From the Past 

• 2009: Jacob Moon CD-Maybe Sunshine
• 2010: Videos of Tiny Bill Cody@Artword Artbar
• 2011: Videos of Matthew de Zoete@Artword Artbar
• 2012: Harrison Kennedy on Santa's Got Mojo 2 CD
• 2013: Dan Walsh CD: Outta the Jam

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Recently Added

Main List of Sites

• American Blues Scene

Our Performer List

• D'Eve Archer
  
  
  
  Links: Video above courtesy of D'Eve, More Bill Withers Covers/Stories
  
  
• Shanya Lynn Dawson (new site)

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Birthdays

Friday, December 12

• Stephen Foster (Crawlin' Kingsnakes)

Saturday, December 13

• Mark McNeil
• Skip Prokop (Lighthouse)

Sunday, December 14

• Adam Bentley

Tuesday, December 16

• Dee Curtis
• Robin Pirson (Mississippi Bends)

Wednesday, December 17

• Sarah Beatty
• Joe Hocaluk
  
  
  
  Links: Video above courtesy of Joe Hocaluk
  
  
• Dylan Hudecki

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Hamilton Bluesman A.K. McLeod Forges Fiery New CD

If loud, mighty guitars are your thing, you MUST check out A.K. McLeod's latest disc, Spiritual Fire. The Hamilton Bluesman and his crew (G. Modesto on bass and drummer Darrin Jamieson) have forged quite a fiery collection of potent grooves!

Spiritual Fire features high-octane covers of Blues classics (Willie Dixon's I Ain't Superstitious, St. James Infirmary, The Thrill is Gone, and Born Under a Bad Sign) and explosive, dynamic originals.  These guys really put the power in power trio as the three of them burst and blaze through every tune.

Contact A.K. through his website or go to one of his killer live shows to get a copy of this CD.  Then crank it to 11 and enjoy!







Links: A.K. McLeod, More CD Releases, Videos above courtesy of A.K. McLeod

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New Blue Rodeo Christmas CD Will Rock Your Stockings

Canadian country rock superstars Blue Rodeo (now with Hamilton's Colin Cripps on guitar) have released a remarkable new holiday album, A Merrie Christmas to You (released through Warner Music Canada).  This isn't your usual bland collection of sappy yuletide tunes - these are emotional songs about the happiness and heartbreak of the season.  The energy level will also rock your stockings off!

There's rootsy versions of classics like O Come All Ye Faithful and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  Then the guys cover great winter tunes from Gordon Lightfoot, Big Star, The Band, Paul Simon and Merle Haggard. The main highlights are the two original tracks: the emotional Glad to be Alive and the amazing Home to You This Christmas.

You can pick up the CD at many brick and mortar stores and online shops or you can order it through the Blue Rodeo online store or download using iTunes.







Videos above courtesy of BurritoDLX

Blast from the Past: Blue Rodeo CD - In Our Nature

Links: Blue Rodeo, More Blue Rodeo Stories, More Christmas Posts, More CD Releases

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News Roundup (Curley Bridges, Barbershop Podcast Anniversary, Rebecca Miller, Cartoons)

Toronto Bluesman Curley Bridges Passes

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News 

Local

• Two part 2nd Anniversary show from Barbershop Podcast
  
  
  
  
  
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Canada

• King Biscuit Boy and Kenny Blues Boss Wayne Producer Andy Grigg in Blues Hall of Fame

World

• Rolling Stones sax player, Bobby Keys passes
• Jack White Saves Important Blues Archives

Cartoons

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Blasts From the Past 

• 2009: Videos of Pappy Johns Band@Waltz
• 2010: James Anthony CD: On the Edge
• 2011: Ian Thomas YouTube Videos
• 2012: Videos of Wendell Ferguson w the James Anthony Band
• 2013: Sonny Del-Rio CD: Blow Your Horn Man

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Recently Added

Our Performer List

• Boreal (Katherine Wheatley, Tannis Slimmon, Jude Vadala)
• Ben Jokela
• Rebecca Miller
  
  
  
  Links: More Rebecca Miller Stories, Video above courtesy of Rebecca Miller
  

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Birthdays

Thursday, December 4

• Ron Palangio (Retro Party Groove)
• Joe Rhodes

Friday, December 5

• Spider Costello (Stone Blue, Acoustic Jukebox)

Saturday, December 6

• Max Wray
• Mike Cotton (Bluesers)

Sunday, December 7

• Donna Panchezak(Trickbag)
• Steve Pelletier

Tuesday, December 9

• Billy Berman (Rick and the Krickets)
• Al Helsdon (Gaslight Alley)

Wednesday, December 10

• Rolly Greenway (Crowbar)
• Jonny Kerr
• Mark Logan (Busted Flat Records)
• Mike Trebilcock

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Hamilton's Dinner Belles Create a Lush Americana Sound with Latest CD

Hamilton's Dinner Belles are purveyors of the finest Americana around.  With their sophomore album, The River and the Willow (their first through Sonic Unyon) they continue to hammer out some incredible rootsy twang.

The band features some of the best local musician's around, such as Scott Bell, Brandon Bliss, Terra Lightfoot, Brad Germain, Jonathan Ely Cass, Melanie Pothier and Greg Brisco.  They team up to create an organic sounding, spirited country folk of the highest order. Sweet harmonies and a myriad of instruments (xylophone, trombone, bells and more) create a beautiful lush sound that just sinks rights in to your soul.

You can get an LP, CD or download at the Sonic Unyon online store.  This superb album can also be downloaded through iTunes.



Video above courtesy of the Dinner Belles





Above two videos courtesy of StellaBlu447

Blast from the Past: The Dinner Belles' Debut CD

Links: Dinner Belles, More Dinner Belles stories More Releases

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