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Lee Harvey Osmond long listed for the Polaris Prize…again
Latent Recordings artist, Lee Harvey Osmond's latest release "Beautiful Scars", has been longlisted for Canada's prestigous Polaris Music Prize. The bands previous two albums A Quiet Evil and The Folk Sinner were also long-listed for the prize. All three albums were produced by Michael Timmins. Please stop by the LHO website and take a listen…we think you'll […]
Under Cover (May 2015) – The Water Is Wide and One Grain Of Sand
This month's free Under Cover downloads are takes on a couple of traditional-ish folk songs: The Water Is Wide and One Grain Of Sand. The Water Is Wide is a true traditional. I think it has been traced back to an 17th century Scottish folk song. It was brought to us by the director Curtis […]
Under Cover April 2015 – Vic Chesnutt and Bonnie Prince Billie
When we were planning out the various themes that we wanted to include on The Nomad Series we decided at a very early stage that we wanted one of the albums to be made up of cover songs. We knew that we wanted there to be a theme that held the album together but were stumped as to what […]
Under Cover (March 2015) – Bob Dylan
This is our newly launched Under Cover feature. Every month we will be offering free downloads of two cover songs: one recorded by Cowboy Junkies and another recorded by a Latent artist. We are running this feature off of the Latent Recordings Facebook page. All you need to do is go to the page, click the Under Cover link and follow the prompts If there is one person […]
Under Cover (February 2015) – Mary Margaret O’Hara
This is our newly launched Under Cover feature. Every month we will be offering free downloads of two cover songs: one recorded by Cowboy Junkies and another recorded by a Latent artist. We are running this feature off of the Latent Recordings Facebook page. All you need to do is go to the page, click the Under Cover link and follow the prompts. When Trinity Session was beginning […]
Under Cover (December 2014) – Lost My Driving Wheel and Lucifer’s Blues
This is part three of our newly launched Under Cover feature. Every month we will be offering free downloads of two cover songs: one recorded by Cowboy Junkies and another recorded by a Latent artist. We are running this feature off of the Latent Recordings Facebook page. All you need to do is go to the page, click the Under Cover link and follow the prompts. […]
A Look Back….The Trinity Session (history – part 3 of 3)
(I'll be posting a series of blogs over the coming days all about the making of The Trinity Session. Check out our Facebook page to see rare photos and anecdotes from me and Margo.) November 27, 1987 The pews and all seating had previously been removed so we had a choice of where to set up our […]
A Look Back At…The Trinity Session (history – part 2 of 3)
(I'll be posting a series of blogs over the coming days all about the making of The Trinity Session. Check out our Facebook page to see rare photos and anecdotes from me and Margo.) songs We worked on the songs for our next album all through that summer. I had been inspired by the music that we […]
Under Cover (November 2014) – Cortez The Killer and Wonderin’
This is part two of our newly launched Under Cover feature. Every month we be offer free downloads of two cover songs: one recorded by Cowboy Junkies and another recorded by a Latent artist. We are running this feature off of the Latent Recordings Facebook page. All you need to do is go to the page, click the Under Cover link and follow the prompts. We […]
A Look Back At….The Trinity Session (history – part 1 of 3)
(I'll be posting a series of blogs over the coming days all about the making of The Trinity Session. Check out our Facebook page to see rare photos and anecdotes from me and Margo.) evolution/inspiration We had spent the past year touring Whites Off Earth Now!!around Canada and the United States, grabbing gigs wherever and whenever […]