Posts tagged ballads
BALLADS OF A YOUNG TROUBADOUR: JUSTICE LEAGUE, VOL. 5

Growing up we didn’t have a lot of superheroes that looked like we did. All the mainstream ones on TV and in comic books were white and most of them were men. So my cousins and I turned to sports for inspiration and to find people like us to look up to.

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BALLADS OF A YOUNG TROUBADOUR: MUSIC UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN, VOL. 4

One of my most memorable trips was playing indigenous day live in Whitehorse. I’d never been to Whitehorse before. I left a few days before the band to do a solo performance at the opening ceremonies.

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BALLADS OF A YOUNG TROUBADOUR: STEPPING STONES, VOL. 3

I loved collecting stones as a child. I was mesmerized by the smooth light-green ones. I didn’t know they were just shards of glass that had been eroded. Back then, when I was just a boy, it was like finding pirate treasure.

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BALLADS OF A YOUNG TROUBADOUR: KINDRED SPIRIT, VOL. 2

It was the summer I turned 15, and music already had its grip on me. I was visiting my grandfather on the West Coast and listening to a lot of his old blues records and 8-tracks.

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BALLADS OF A YOUNG TROUBADOUR: MISSION APOLLO, VOL. 1

Vortex Records was a little shop near the high school I went to, on Yonge Street above the Second Cup. It was the mid-'90s. Jerry Garcia had just died. I was going into grade 9 at North Toronto Collegiate and having a tough time trying to find my way.

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