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Tour Diary – New Orleans, LA (June 14, 2010)
(Jason Lent has forsaken the island paradise of Hawaii to follow us around for a few months. I have happily placed the tour diary in his capable hands. It should bring a new perspective to our ramblings.) Headed straight for the French Quarter as I rolled into New Orleans. It was crawfish etouffee for lunch […]
Tour Diary – Baton Rouge, LA (June 13, 2010)
(Jason Lent has forsaken the island paradise of Hawaii to follow us around for a few months. I have happily placed the tour diary in his capable hands. It should bring a new perspective to our ramblings.) A straight shot south with little traffic brought me into Cajun country. The venue was in the heart […]
Amazon release special
We are very pleased to announce that Amazon has made Renmin Park its MP3 Daily Deal which means that the album will be available today only, (Monday, June 14th), as a download for only $3.99. The album will be officially released tomorrow (June 15th) and will be available at all your favourite retail outlets (we […]
Tour Diary – Memphis, TN (June 12, 2010)
(Jason Lent has forsaken the island paradise of Hawaii to follow us around for a few months. I have happily placed the tour diary in his capable hands. It should bring a new perspective to our ramblings.) Chicago to Memphis is a haul so I left a day early. A night in Memphis sounded like […]
new Lee Harvey Osmond video
For those of you who don’t watch the Top 40 video countdown hour every Sunday morning, while eating your krispies…here’s the new LHO vid…..
Renmin Park review
We’re Canadian so we find it unseemly when someone toots their own horn, but every now and then you come across a review and you think (while giving the old Tiger Woods fist pump), “yes, we really got through to someone….”. Here is a current review from My Old Kentucky Blog. New Music : Cowboy […]
review of The Foundling
Here’s another great review (stereosubversion.com) for Mary Gauthier’s new album. If you haven’t heard it yet please take a listen and if you like it…please buy it…. “For as long as she’s been making music, Mary Gauthier has been a storyteller; her records take song seriously, but the details of time and place, of character […]
Renmin Park background and blogs
I hope everyone is enjoying the album. Over the past month or so I have been blogging about some of the inspiration behind the album and if you missed some of those blogs, and are interested, you can catch up by clicking on the links below. In the coming weeks I’ll be posting about the […]
Mary Gauthier – The Foundling
I had the great pleasure of producing Mary Gauthier’s new album, The Foundling, this past winter. It’s an intensely personal collection of songs, best described in her own words: I was born to an unwed mother in 1962 and subsequently surrendered to St. Vincent’s Women and Infants Asylum on Magazine Street in New Orleans, where […]
Happy Birthday Bob
(Here’s something from our friend Ron Wells…) Robert Allen Zimmerman, born May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota He was born an enigma wrapped in a cloak of mystery outside the Gates of Eden, outside of time and space, walking in the footsteps of Woody Guthrie, sitting amidst the blues of Blind Willie McTell, kin to […]