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I was just informed of this

Paul Wrote:I've been friends with Jim for a bunch of years now.

We were a little ways into our friendship before I even realized Jim played guitar. Anyway, he pulled out a guitar one night and played me a song he'd written, called Apple Blossom - I was impressed (it ended up being the 1st song on his record).

As I heard more of his tunes over the next few years, and at countless campfires, I started saying 'Jim, we gotta get you into the studio and lay these tunes down'...
So, eventually, that's what we did!

In the fall of '08, we went into the Bathouse, and we started by starting.
We chipped away at it over the course of a couple/three weekends, here and there.
On the first weekend, Jim's wife Angie, his daughter Emily, and my wife Joanne each sang a duet with him. A couple of our other kids, his Katie, and my Sophie, also added some back-ups. Jim's brother Dave, a surprisingly subtle and tasteful harmonica player, was there most of the time over these weekends - playing along with Jim and his songs, like he's done most of their lives...
I asked Rob Baker to add some pedal steel on a couple of tunes - then I asked Gord Sinclair to add a little banjo. Another friend of mine, Mauro Sepe, came in one night and played some percussion on a couple of tracks. Aaron Holmberg, our resident engineer at the Bathouse, even made an appearance, with a back-up vocal on Devils and Diamonds...

So there you go! That's how it happened, and I hope you like it....
Paul

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Stealing Ghosts
Apple blossom
Come Around
Clothes
That old House
Meter Maid
Garfield Brant
Thin Lines
Devils and Diamonds
A Little Mean
Unwed Fathers

The album is released next week.

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Is this the first label of the band members to actually do something since Gord's solo albums?
Weiner Art
Arte Humane
Dirty Shorts
Bhaji Maker
Ching Music

Relaxing to it now...always open to new artists - music.

My Friend Andy is another one of Paul's efforts:

A Little Bit Of Sun

Went outside to get a little bit of sun
But the clouds were out, couldn't get me none
Went back inside to watch some tube
The remote was broke so I didn't get to do


Anything I wanted to
Couldn't do anything I wanted to


Went down to the park, to shoot some hoops
But the guys that hang think I'm a goof
So I went back inside to smoke some dope
I Couldn't find my weed, but I found a roach


Went to see my girl, looking for some love
But her friend was in town so all I got was a hug


:music

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