Brad Wheeler
Globe and Mail Update Published on Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 2:22PM EDT Last updated on Monday, Mar. 30, 2009 3:32PM EDT
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A Penny for the Band by Justin Rutledge, from Man Descending (Six Shooter)
An evocative piano riff opens and closes a softly loping piece of California country-pop, circa Eagles heyday. It's sad the way a singer on the road misses his loved ones, playing tunes to dancing strangers instead. Certainly much more than a cent is deserved for the forlorn thoughts of Toronto's quill-penned dusty balladeer.
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Another Day by Jamie Lidell, from the forthcoming Jim (Warp)
Ah yes, who can forget this likeable seventies sitcom theme, written up by Stevie Wonder and Burt Bacharach for a wacky Linda Lavin comedy vehicle. Kidding - it's actually a nicely bouncing bit of blue-eyed pop-soul. Either way.
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White Wedding by Queens of the Stone Age, from Era Vulgaris (Interscope/Universal)
"There is nothing sure in this world, there is nothing pure in this world." A tambourine shakes ever so monotonously and a piano pounds blankly on an ominously understated remake of the Billy Idol hit.
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Lights Are On (But Nobody's Home) by Albert Collins, from Live at Montreux 1992 (Eagle Records)
The electric blues Master of the Telecaster stretches out in a slow, 11-minute minor-key way, hitting sharp, scatting notes and bemoaning an erratic woman who just plain messes with his business. Halfway in, a tenor sax robustly splits the whole damn thing wide open.
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