artist Ben Sures

I just received the master for my new recording 'Gone to Bolivia' I am stoked, excited, happy about this album.it features some of my favourite singers on it two of the Good Lovelies Caroline Brooks and Kerri Ough, Rhonda Stakich who is Canada's answer to Melody Gardot and beyond. Kathryn Rose, the lovelest Momma and most diverse beautiful sultry voice. Oh yeah and Michele Rumball, do you remember Michelle?She was in The Grievious Angels, when I think of that era of iconic Canadian Voices that was Jane Sibery, Mary Margaret O'hara et al.  I include Michelle in that group.

The Drummer and Cellist for the album wa also the producer, his name is Don Kerr and he is a gifted musician, arranger, thinker, Dad and Sprout Grower.He is best known for playing drums with Ron Sexsmith and The Rheostatics. Michael Holt played Piano, Brian Kpbayakawa of Creakng Tree and Elvs Bossa NOva played killer electric and upright bass. im Bovaconti from ROn's band played steel and I played a lot f guitar and sang and wrote all but one song which is a cover by Mose Allison called Everybody's Cryin Mercy. The album is full of meaty content drive hummable songs, if you are a lyric person who likes Leonard Cohen, Feist Neil Young etc. This album will add to your collection.

 

I have never written a blog, I do not really know what a blog is except for what I have picked up from heresay, whoops, hearsay. I think a blog is people writing down thoughts that should maybe sometimes be left in their heads.Like if the brain was a house its an opportunity for voyeurs to have a look see. Personally I don't really want to know the intimate meanderings of rockstars or who ever. Admittedly there are times where I would like to know what people REALLY think, but I get the impression that blogging is a lot like reality television shows, the REAL people on those shows have learned from other REALITY shows how to appear REAL.The only blog I ever read was a chunk off of a certain semi famous Canadian musician 's website and it made me not want to read any more blogs.I love the guy, cool guitar sounds and I enjoy big parts of what he does but something about reading his musings from his passing thoughts while lounging for a day before the next two hour gig, didn't do anything to raise his merit as a person or as an artist in my eyes. I think it would be the same with any musician. Maybe it would be more interesting read the musings of a person who comes from a less VERBAL craft or just from a completely different background. I'd like to read the musings of a musician from another continent like Africa cause its from a very different place, but reading from a local is like looking in the mirror. The older I get the less I want to know about the shallowness, or the material desires and needs that cultivate our own growing meaninglessness, the things that point to democracy as a failed experiment.I especially don't want to read the musings of an uneducated singer songwriter type commenting on the western world as a failed experiment......whoops.... ha ha ha ha.