Wayne D's Blog

I just finished downloading my emusic.com tracks for this month so I thought I'd tell you all about them.

• First is vox humana by Mel Watson of Fruit. I saw Fruit in concert a few years ago and was really impressed with their high energy show. This album from one of the members of Fruit has a pop feel with some nice horn backing.
• Retriever by Ron Sexsmith was another of my choices. I heard him on this week's Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean and was impressed enough with his music to pick up some of his songs.
• Dances like Flames from Tanglefoot is also on the list for next month. I've seen Tanglefoot in concert a few times and always found them quite entertaining. Tanglefoot has added a female vocalist and fiddle player who adds a new dimension to their harmonies.
• I also picked up 5 tracks off of Hungry Ghosts by Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie. Some of the tracks on the album were a little too bluesies for my tastes so I didn't get the whole album but the more folk focused tracks I did download were quite satisfying.

If you want cheap, legal, DRM free, indie music emusic.com is the place to get it. If you want to sign up and get 50 free tracks send me a message and I'll send you a referral. That way I get 50 more free tracks too. Not from emusic.com but also new to my iPod this month is The Phenominal Ruthie Foster a new album from (surprise, surprise) Ruthie Foster. I bought this one from Amazon.ca using my Telus $10 off discount on purchases over $40. It works out to be less than buying on iTunes after the discount is taken into account.

I finally gave up on using the radio to cassette adapter in my car and switched back to the FM transmitter. It's gotten to the point that the cassette adaptor gets ejected by the cassette player ever 30 seconds or so. It works fine in my wife's car so I think it's the cassette deck in my car.

Now I'm off to rip more of my old CD's to add to my music library, on the pile is No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom, Exchange - Into the Night, Natalie MacMaster - In My Hands and Randy Newman - Faust.

After writing about Tiki Bar TV a few weeks ago I hear that Steve Jobs mentioned the show in a speech last year. So as always I am late to the bandwagon.