I got to sit with dad for a few hours every day while painting, basking in resounding gratitude for the example he set - create fearlessly and with pure intent, knowing the right people will find their way into your corner, and you theirs. Creating these paintings and working alongside the family (blood and chosen) was an incredibly emotional process. CMG, to me, represents his fearless deep-dive into his expansive inner landscape at the time.
It was daunting - it is daunting - but I have him on my shoulder. He’d say to me always, “do what you love Willo, and you will never work a day in your life.” He was one of the first people in my life that gave me permission to go ahead and pursue work in a creative sphere. It’s transportive - a portal back to when my siblings and I were all younger and just starting to understand the nature of dad’s work. In short, Downies career pause is definitely refreshing.I am honoured to have created the paintings for the Songwriters' Cabal in celebration of Coke Machine Glow's 20th anniversary.Ĭoke Machine Glow has been a longtime favourite of mine out of dad’s body of work. Chancellor teams the records most indelible melody with lyrics about bedtime vampires and roads not taken. Yer Possessed marries a lovers quarrel to a kitchen hoedown that would do The Band proud. Elaborate sets a cell phone call overheard on a streetcar to a wrenching country waltz. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. Trick Rider, a moving assessment of limits to a parents limitless love, precedes a Velvets-like rocker called Canada Geese that equates men meeting for a dope deal to geese collecting in a field. Gordon Edgar Downie CM (6 February 1964 17 October 2017) was a Canadian rock musician, writer, and occasional actor. What emerges is a well-rounded and honest portrait of the artist, from the working musicians travelscapes (SF Hotel, Starpainters) to an urbanites rural daydreams (Blackflies, Lofty Pines) to apocalyptic weirdness (Nothing But Heartache In Your Social Life). The focus, then, returns to the songs and Downies expressive voice. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. Recorded live to 8-track recorder with a coterie of Toronto players, Coke Machine Glow has a casualness thats a departure from the hell-bent Hip style, which is certainly the point. Browse Gordon Downie’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. The mastering sounds a bit off, but I hear each format has their own master so Ill be sure to check those out. None of which obscures the impression that this is a fascinating, gorgeously-rendered singer-songwriter album. Gordon Downies debut mixes chamber hall, baroque pop, spoken word and pop rock (just to name a few) to make surreal and spacey album with some excellent wordplay none the less. Its being issued through Downies Weiner Art imprint (and via Rounder in the U.S.). The release of Coke Machine Glow and an accompanying volume of poetry come without the clamor that typically greets Hip releases in Canada. Such is the esteem that has been showered upon the group since their rise to the relatively lofty status of Huge In Canada.
If the democratic franchise in Canada were restricted to citizens 18 to 30, The Tragically Hips Gordon Downie could have been Prime Minister, had the job held any allure.
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