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Follow on Google News | Bluesman Brian Blain Releases A Whale Of A Single To Launch New Cd - @ The Black Shire Pub Jan 28TORONTO – Singer, songwriter, storyteller and bluesman Brian Blain continues his three-month “CD Celebration and Tour” with the release of the free online single "THE OLD WHALER'S CONFESSION" and release of his new album NEW FOLK BLUES.
By: SPEAK Music But the whaling song is only the beginning. Over the next three months Blain will issue three more free downloads (including one in French); put out a nine-song album, New Folk Blues, both in CD format and an extended live version streaming online at www.myspace.com/ New Folk Blues was recorded live at Reba’s Café in Toronto’s west-end Junction district, with only Blain and Koller performing. While the CD is slim and trim, sans long introductions, Blain decided to offer an online version that includes his intros plus the full length "seascape" by Koller, full of whale, seagull and surf sounds. Blain plans to add overdubs to some of the tunes as well, so what started out as a "live" CD has become, in a way, a "living" CD. The album also features “Another Song About Alice,” which references the 1960s cult folk music legend Alice Brock of “Alice’s Restaurant” (Brock, a great supporter of Blain’s work, lives in Provincetown, where Blain frequently visits); “Ghost of Clinton’s Tavern,” about the well- known Toronto “haunt”; a tribute to guitar hero Lenny Breau and “The Day Coke Saved The Blues,” describing how a TV commercial song placement saved the Northern Blues record label that Blain had been affiliated with. The Toronto-based Blain, originally a native son of Sherbrooke, QC, has been on the Canadian music scene for nearly 50 years. In 1963, he first recorded with a folk group whose payment for the session was "a trip to Montreal and a steak dinner." These days he’s best known as the host of the monthly “campfire” UPCOMING DATES: Jan 22 @ 8pm – Toronto, ON (Highway 61 BBQ, Brian Blain & Friends) Jan 28 @ 6-9pm – London, ON (Black Shire Pub) April 9 @ 8pm – Knowlton, Quebec (Radio Village Hall,) April 17 @ 8pm – Prince Edward County, ON (Blues Breakfast Fund-Raiser and wrap-up of CD Celebration Tour) ************************************************************ ~ Kerry Doole, TANDEM "This Toronto-based Quebec native, a longtime fixture on the Canadian acoustic blues scene, writes ironic, biting lyrics that are equally funny and insightful." - Jeff Johnson, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "For mature, relaxed-fit acoustic blues, Blain's the man for the job." - Brad Wheeler, GLOBE AND MAIL -30- For more information, photos, mp3s, interviews, please contact: Beverly Kreller SPEAK Music www.speak-music.com bev@speak-music.com 416.922.3620 End
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