KURATED READERS’ CHOICE PART NINE
Guitar-driven pop-rock by Toronto’s Alvvays (pictured) plus The Beaches, 54-40, the Revivalists and Dua Lipa
READERS’ CHOICE PART EIGHT
Six songs spanning almost 50 years by artists better and lesser known including Frazey Ford, Kris Kristofferson, Marlin Greene, John Prine and BW Stevenson
KURATED READERS’ CHOICE PART SIX
Featuring Billy Strayhorn’s last composition and a lively sobremesa Tiny Desk Concert set by Spanish star C. Tangana
READERS’ CHOICE PART FIVE
Honouring four legacy artists – Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot and Jerry Lee Lewis
READERS’ CHOICE PART FOUR
Listen to the jazz classic Nature Boy plus a wildly eclectic 53-song playlist
READERS’ CHOICE 2022 PART THREE
Part three of Readers’ Choice presents five vital songs by performers ranging from edgy Finnish folk singers to an indigenous Ontario academic, poet and musician as well as two Iranian sisters singing a more than century-old protest song to rally resistance to government repression
READERS’ CHOICE 2022 PART ONE
Readers’ Choice 2022 kicks off with a single-song appetizer seguing into a 91-song playlist covering a host of genres and blends
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 12
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss eloquently update mid-20th century American song-writing on Raising the Roof
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 11
The focus is on folk, roots,blues and country featuring Pete Seeger as well as Ontario duo Cat Clyde and Jeremie Albino
READERS’ CHOICE 2021: PART 8
East Coast singer-songwriter Kim Harris’ album Heirloom has listener’s saying: “That voice!”.
