Corby's Orbit

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 4 October with Wolf Den

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought to you by Renewal Ovations, Upgradients & Feel Alignments

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .

Guests: Troy Junker & Thea May of Wolf Den

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

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Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00 Awe-begotten

* David Francey ~ A Star Above ~ So Say We All ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Sunday

* Jon Brooks ~ Safer Days ~ Moth Nor Rust ll NEW DISK ~ on Corby's Orbit next Friday

Frank Turner ~ Out Of Breath ~ Positive Songs For Negative People ~ @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Thursday 10 October

Steely Dan ~ Brain Tap Fever ~ Yellow Peril ~ Pretzel Logic @ The Linsmore Tavern tonight

5:20 Gnarly Rando

Lord Huron ~ The Man Who Lived Forever ~ Lonesome Dreams ~ @ Budweiser Stage Tuesday 8 October

Joel Plaskett ~ Down By The Khyber ~ Down By The Khyber ~ @ Danforth Music Hall with Thrush Hermit tonight

Crosby Stills & Nash ~ Teach Your Children ~ No Nukes ~ David Crosby @ 918 Bathurst Saturday / Graham Nash @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Tuesday 8 November (coincidence?)

DJ Khaled feat. Post Malone ~ Celebrate ~ Father Of Asahd ~ Post Malone @ ACC tonight

Dirty Dishes ~ Lyin' In The Ground ~ In Sink NEW DISK

5:40 Deaths In The Family

Tosca Tango Orchestra ~ Pelo Negro ~ Waking Life sdtrk.

Jessye Norman

(September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) ~ Love Is Here To Stay ~ Classics

Larry Willis (20 December 1942 - 29. September 2019) ~ Poppa Nat ~ The Big Push (High Note 2005)

6:00 Bangin' Off Riffs

* Jaron Freeman-Fox ~ The Off Set ~ Manic Almanac / Slow Mobius ~ @ Tranzac Sunday 3 p.m. for ALPHA School Fundraiser

* Wolf Den ~ Interview with Troy Junker & Thea May ~ So Close ~ NEW SINGLE
https://twitter.com/WolfDenMusic1

* Jerome Godboo ~ Why Don't You Love Me? ~ Sanctuary ~ @ The Rex Saturday 3:30 pm

* Emily Burgess ~ Arrested ~ Are We In Love? ~ @ Alleycatz Sunday with Jesse Whitely 4-7 p.m.

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats ~ Resentment File ~ Contemporary NEW DISK

6:20 Archivals & Departures

Joe Tex ~ I Just Can't Take It ~ Strictly Soul

Black Keys ~ The Year In Review ~ Turn Blue ~ @ Scotiabank Arena

Betty Everett ~ It's In His Kiss ~ Strictly Soul

Keely Smith ~ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ~ Be My Love

6:40 Lyrics By Robert Hunter (June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019)

Heavy As Heaven ~ Friend Of The Devil ~ Original Bones (Dysart 1972)

The Grateful Dead ~ Ship Of Fools ~ From The Mars Hotel

* Andy Ballantyne ~ Gordian Knot / Ishtar Fan ~ Play On Words NEW DISK / Toronto Music Listings

* Charlotte Cornfield ~ Balladeer ~ The Shape Of Your Name ~ @ The Mod Club Thursday 10 October

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Ultimate Ulrich ~ Back To Shore Review in Prose and Poetry

i) There WILL be poetry. But first, for those of you who may be suspicious of rhyme schemes (or antsy with scansion), it is ultimately most important to know that Shari Ulrich has a new record out. A superlative follow-up to 2014’s Everywhere I Go, which won her the Songwriter of the Year prize at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, Back To Shore is a thoughtful, attractive and radio-ready package full of testimony to Shari’s hard-earned familiarity with existential turbulence, heart storms, and the potential for redemption in following your conscience’s GPS.

The first three songs are lit by themes of wisdom, comfort and hope, and by Scott Smith’s galvanizing electric guitar and dobro, energizing the tidal attraction of the record. The key resolution of the second song, “Love is Everything,” offers a recuperation strategy from loneliness, fear and desperation with a simply-sung cure that spreads a positive sheen across the entire record’s topography. The album is imprinted throughout with Shari’s mature perspective and affable personality: candid and wry, “a little tough and a little wild,” accepting love with gratitude and the pains of regret with equanimity.

“I don’t know what’s happened to me, but I feel so positive and so happy, virtually all the time,” she says. “There’s a lot of joy in me now.”

This feeling is communicated to the listener through long, ornately harmonized vocal lines, upbeat phrasing and the artistically latticed interplay of instruments.

To assign credit for these empathetic attributes, the disk is once again co-produced by Shari and her “giant science-brain” daughter Julia Graff, alongside James Perrella, who both graduated from the same exclusive McGill masters class in music recording.

Along for the voyage is another proud McGill alumnus – and Bowen Island’s favourite piano teacher – Cindy Fairbank, left, and Shari’s High Bar Gang compadre Kirby Barber, right, who is currently touring the record as Shari’s bass player but who brings luminous harmony and guitar skills to the album.

The thoughtful metaphoric balladry of “The Sweater” holds the heart with a carmellized string duet weave and Shari takes over the fiddle herself for a celebration of her affection for Canada and its natural soul provisions. Reflective moods and a hope for reconcilliation with “hurtful and thoughtless” circumstances dominate “These Lines,” “By And By” and “Forgiveness.” And the album concludes with a bipolar icecap of an instrumental called “Ferry Tale Jig” and a final “Goodnight” that calls us all into a tentative eulogy for the planet – which is also a concern in another of her songs, “Mars,” and the more profound personal farewell of the narrator of “That’s What I Thought Too,” which also features the deep blue B3 skills of Cindy Fairbank.

All in all, this album is the utmost Ulrich.

And now a review in poetry:

ii) Shari Ulrich : She Of The Lyric Courage

Shoring up knowledge –

Cheery and accurate –

Clearly as an oracle –

Sharp and original.

Originally hatched from the Pied Pumkin patch –

She studied with Vi-valdi –

(Fo-Folk singer from Va-Vancouver) –

Road grad from his Hometown Band –

And from UHF and The High Bar Gang –

Now she’s become a heritage brand.

Her brand new disk –

Called Back To Shore –

Full of the love of her loves and more –

Global warnings and advice galore –

Don’t “risk your whole damn ship –

Crashing on a rocky shore,” –

For romance’s disguises –

& moral compromises –

Be wise to surprises –

(& Cara Luft’s banjo besides this).

Beside love she is humble –

Because trouble can wake you –

But “When everything is sinking,

Love will stay afloat” –

Love is all she sings about –

“Love Is Everything” she wrote –

Savour that quote –

It’s Gospel truth.

Truth is in the flavours and fibers –

Of all the songs –

Survivors and a thirsty tree –

And a sweater, and a refugee –

An anthem and some hard good-byes –

And that’s just for starters.

“Soon will come the day

We’re going to say

we should have tried harder,”-

She wants us to be smarter than our phones,

To realize, “Just how precious

are these roots and bones,

Heart and home.”

Her home is Bowen Island

But she’s on assignment now –

Touring, booking madly –

Wrestling the road –

This record is her ninth.

And she’s started on the tenth –

She easily confides

She has a new resource of strength

“I don’t know what’s happened to me

but I feel so positive

And so happy, virtually all the time.

There’s a lot of joy in me now.”

Now she’s sharing all the riches –

Of this brave collection which is

Meant to help and heal and to

Preserve our secret wishes –

And intentions.

Shelter us to harbour –

Showing off her rubric –

And shouldn’t we all reach –

~ she asks ~

For what is truly epic?

Shari Ulrich:

Back To Shore.

Get it from the source:

Go to Shari’s Store

Originally published at Roots Music Canada.

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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Playlist For Show Of 27 September

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought to you by Fatal Fluorocarbons, Terminal Tarsands and Failing Tailings

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .

Guests: Jane Lewis & Eve Goldberg of Gathering Sparks and Colleen Searson of Searson

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

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Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00 And So The Green Comes Tumbling Down

Tracy Chapman ~ The Times They Are A-Changing ~ Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

* The Lifers ~ Tip ~ NEW SINGLE

Booker T. Jones ~ Progress ~ The Route To Quadrophenia (Mojo)

Cinematic Orchestra ~ Evolution ~ The Cinematic Orchestra

* Tim Baker ~ The Only World
The Only World NEW SINGLE

Roseanne Cash ~ Save The Country ~ Laura Nyro: Time And Love

5:30 Where There's Sparks

* Gathering Sparks ~ We Are The Ones / Interview with Jane Lewis & Eve Goldberg / Bringing In The Light ~ All That's Real NEW DISK ~ CD launch @ Hugh's Room Live Thursday 3 October

Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers ~ Can I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister?

(New York, July 1925, JSP Records)

* Charrlonmane Collective ~ The Raft Beyond Cave Pond ~ Water Under The Bridge

* Broomsticks & Hammers ~ Playin' By Their Rules ~ Mirrorbox

6:00 Fiddle Fidelity
* Searson ~ Better Than Fine / Night Patrol / Interview with Colleen Searson / Fiddle Jam ~ Live At The Neat Café NEW DISK

6:20 Cuba Roots

* Sam Kirmayer Trio ~ On A Clear Day ~ High & Low NEW DISK ~ @ Jazz Bistro Wednesday 2 October

* Alex Cuba ~ Hoy Como Ayer con Pablo Milanés / Dividido con Silvana Estrada / De Los Dos / Yo No Sé ~ Sublime NEW DISK

6:40 Awide And Awake

* Kiran Ahluwalia with Tinariwen ~ Musst Musst ~ Aam Zameen ~ Tinariwen @ Danforth Music Hall Saturday

* Al Qahwa ~ The Beautiful One ~ Cairo Moon ~ @ Aga Khan Monday 30 September

Jaki Byard ~ Spanish Tinge ~ On The Spot / Toronto Music Listings

B.B. King ~ Woman's Got Soul ~ A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield

Massive Attack feat. Horace Andy ~ Hymn Of The Big Wheel ~ Protection

Go to: https://climatestrikecanada.org/ or https://globalclimatestrike.net/ or https://fridaysforfuture.org/ to find a climate strike demonstration near you. This is a song written & recorded by Tim Baker (& friends) for the #weekforfuture, Climate Strike Canada & the Global Student Climate Strike Movement September 20-27 (or as long as it takes). Please share & sing & march! The Only World Chorus: F Bb F the only world we got it’s the only world we got it’s the only world we got it’s the only world we got V1. Bb Bb for everything that i love, for everything that’s yet to come F C7 let’s take our future back Bb Bb they say we’re too young, but their old ways are gonna kill us all F C7 F let’s take our future back V2. people come on come out, of your school & your work & your house and take our future back if we can pull it all together now, maybe we can turn this ship around and take our future back Chorus V3. i won’t sit idly by, while the poison waters rise let's take our future back i won't shut up and be quiet, while the world around me dies we got to take our future back V4. i won't sit at my desk, while the wildfires take the west we'll take our future back i won't take your war, or your plastic choking the ocean floor we got to take our future back Chorus V5. there’s no-one steering the boat, and we’re heading for these f***ing crazy storms take our future back are we only driven by, all their greed & their fear & their lies? take our future back V6. and those that deny, are taking profits off the pipes let’s take our future back and those of us that fight, are fighting for the weak & the poor & the tired and we’ll take our future back Chorus V7. we fight for the animals, we fight for the very air in our lungs n to take our future back we fight for the unborn, we fight for those that can’t fight anymore to take our future back V8. for everything i love, for everything that’s yet to come let’s take our future back they say we’re too young, but their old ways are gonna kill us all so let’s take our future back Chorus