Jul. 28, 2010 - Issue #771: Young at Heart
The Songs
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Paul Quarrington {recordings_bands_mg} The Songs {/recordings_bands_mg}
(Cordova Bay) , 2010
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After late, great, Canada Reads-winning author Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he devoted himself to his lesser known talents as a singer-songwriter, once begun in his country-blues band Porkbelly Futures. Reflective, confessional and understandably repetitious in style, The Songs is a must-have for fans of his celebrated novels (including Whale Music, adapted into a film for which he collaborated on the soundtrack with the Rheostatics). The emoting folk lyricism might be lost on some, especially as it reaches far into the contemplation of one's own death, but nonetheless stands out with its rare, cultural presence.
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