Jam-Packed

The Wheat pool playing Lefty live on CorbzOrb.
The Wheat Pool

This week's show was a pod buster for realsies...Wendell Ferguson, heroically rising early in the morning after his DVD, Menage a Moi was released to an unsuspecting public at Hugh's Room, was on at 11:30. Opening act The Crooked Brothers of Winnipeg and I looked on in amazement at Wendell's stroboscopic fingerwork on a gorgeous Martin.

Then prairie mood-shifters The Wheat Pool, wafted through on the advent of their Ontario semi-tour in support of Hauntario, my crazy fave disk of 2009, and, so far, of 2010 as well. (as moving a song collection on one disk as I've ever heard. I get two sleeves full of goose bumps every time I listen). A live studio jam of This Is It ensued, along with much talking about the Junos, Edmonton culture, albums vs. records and drumming with restraint ( the word of the day it seems, as the full moon approaches and evaporates all restraint )..

At last, to bring it on back to the galley, The Sure Things, a rousing, mayhem- inducing force of nature warped out the end of the show, and previewed their new disk of dirtbag country hoots, Two Dollar Bottles. At the Dakota Tavern next Tuesday they wave farewell to Toronto on the eve of a western tour. Then, The Governor-General, selector deluxe, offered some of his crown jewels of Caribbean music, to promote his long-standing Saturday night tenure at the Embassy in Kensington. All rose to the maximum trajectory of the occasion in the rites of string

woodhands	electric avenue	seven year itch	paper bag	11:03
tommy castro	trimmin fat	hard believer	alligator	11:07
Makida -Rae	Free	single	Kornerstone	11:11
jim mccarty	hidden nature	sitting on the top of time	easy action	11:16
the crooked brothers	live performance	in studio	orbo	11:22
wendell ferguson	merle jam / live performance and interview	menage a moi	ferguson	11:35
paulo borges	viras	othos pretos	pb	11:54
caetano veloso	fina estampa	fina estampa	philips	11:56
the wheat pool	lefty /interview /this is it live performance / too far apart	hauntario	shameless	12:05
james murdoch	picture it all	in transit	indica	12:30
colleen brown	fantastic feelings	foot in heart	ddr	12:45
jenny whiteley	day without words	forgive or forget	black hen	12:50
david crosby	song without words	if i could only rememeber my name	atlantic	12:55
the sure things	old camp road / dear deer / interview / live performance	two dollar bottles	sure things	1:00
the governor general	selector extraordinaire	caribbean jam	guava mango	1:15
bobby mcferrin	round midnight	round midnight sdtrk	warner	1:55