Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - Yer Favourite Covers of The Tragically Hip Songs: Toronto Mike'd #1313
Episode Date: August 25, 2023In this 1313th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike kicks out yer favourite covers of songs by The Tragically Hip. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Pumpkins A...fter Dark, Ridley Funeral Home and Electronic Products Recycling Association.
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Joining me today, the man behind getting hip to the hip,
FOTM, Jamie Dew.
Hey, Jamie, is it Jamie Dew or is it JD?
What is the current handle by which you want to be referred to?
Well, I go by JD on all the podcasts.
It's funny.
It started out with me going with JD on a pavement podcast to be sort of mysterious.
And it's just stuck because the people that I met along the way call me JD now.
Well, I noticed the change.
I mean, forever I knew you as Jamie Dew.
And then I noticed, like I picked up clues here and there
that you were going as JD.
Now, JD is pretty damn cool.
There's been some other JDs,
but you're the definitive JD in my humble opinion.
I like it.
I'll be the FOTM JD.
FOTM JD, absolutely.
Now, JD, this day that we're recording is August 25th.
This is a Friday.
There's a big event taking place on September 1st, 2023.
I've been talking about it.
It's called Getting Hip to the Hip.
But you're the man of the hour.
So I'm hoping you can tell me how the
evening's gonna go and just a little context is uh yesterday i sat down here with mike epple from
breakfast television and uh city news 680 and mike epple was excited to tell me he bought a ticket
for getting hip to the hip i saw that yeah but he wanted to know i said
something like oh can we sit together and then he said to me oh it's not a sitting thing is it and
then i realized i need jd to tell me what's gonna happen on september 1st like so walk give me like
a vibe like sure i know sean cullen's involved but you all be quiet. Let's listen to JD and you're going to paint a picture of what's going to transpire September 1st.
And then hopefully a bunch of FOTMs listening grab tickets at gettinghiptothehip.com.
And if they want to save 10%, there's a promo code.
And that promo code is FOTM10.
That's FOTM10.
So JD, tell us what's going down September 1st.
All right.
I feel like a wrestler all of a sudden.
Well, you know what?
Lately...
You're Billy Red Lions.
I've been slipping into that mode lately,
and I blame Stu Stone.
Like, I had Stu on,
and I played some Macho Man Randy Savage promos
with Mean Gene Okerlund.
Yes.
Yeah, I actually dig that vibe,
and I will slip into it now and then.
So, tell us. September 1st, The Rec Room.
Give us the deets.
Okay, so the deets are, if you're a Tragically Hip fan,
you probably need to be here,
because this is a Tragically Hip-centric show,
and there's lots of Tragically hip to be had at the show so the
way it's going to break down is this you're going to walk into the rec room anytime after 6 30 p.m
when the doors open and uh you don't have to be there till 7 30 because that's when the show
starts but the show will start with our friend sean cullen doing uh some stand-up and
setting the table for the evening and uh it should be a great great time i'm really looking forward
well if i may sean cullen is very funny right absolutely he's an fotm he's been here in person
and he's a funny mofo that guy is hilarious sure Sure is. He can just go. How did you get Sean Cullen?
That's a mad TV level here.
That's huge.
You know what, Mike?
You're going to appreciate this more than anybody, I think.
I reached out and asked him.
That's your secret.
I've been doing that for 11 years, but I didn't want anybody to figure out my secret.
So I have to delete that
now, edit that out of this episode. So yeah, I reached out and asked him and he said, it sounds
like fun. And then he asked what the date was. And I thought, oh, I'm euchreed because the date is
Friday, September 1st. And that's a long weekend. And so I know there's a lot of FOTMs and non-FOTMs
that go away this last
weekend of the summer or they're taking their kids to
uni or they're
otherwise busy. But if you are
here in the city and there's like 5 million of
you, for
40 bucks, I think you've got a pretty nice
night out in Toronto now. It's only 40 bucks?
That's right. Do you know what they want
for like Bob Dylan at Massey
Hall? I have no idea. 150? So you know, okay, speaking of bob dylan at massey hall i have no i don't know
so you know okay speaking of fo teams there's an fotm named john donabee and john donabee
you know has been going to dylan shows since the 60s okay oh wow just sees i don't know how
many times he's seen dylan but you know this is a guy who was you know visiting leave on helm
uh on his deathbed let's tell how inside John Donabee is.
He's been in Toronto Radio forever.
But John Donabee was talking about
trying to get tickets to see Bob Dylan.
And he said something,
some seat he was looking at
is now like over $1,000.
What?
This is, I read this yesterday.
Anyway, but you're getting hip to the hip.
Now, Dylan is not.
Dylan is not going to be there.
Yes.
But Sean Cullen is Dylan-esque and 40 bucks.
But, you know, you can save 10%.
So if I do the math on that, 36 bucks.
That's right.
See how good I am at math, Jamie?
Oh, sorry, JD.
You are because I was going to say 38, 50 or something.
You would have screwed it up.
Okay. you are because i was going to say 38 50 or something you would have screwed it up okay so sean cullen is going to do his sean cullen this which is worth 36 bucks unto itself but
then what happens but then what happens is he's going to kick to a tragically hip tribute band
called 50 mission who i just saw for the second time last weekend and 50 mission is they build themselves as canada's most most authentic uh tragically hip
tribute um that's up for debate but you have to be there to see it to debate it okay so i have a
question when 50 mission when 50 mission sings uh the line uh looked up to the lord above and said
hey man thanks will they say looked up to the gourd above and said hey man thanks
i can ask them because i just want to know like if that's what they do because to me
a tragically that's what a tragically hip a good tragically hip cover band should do they should
look up to the gourd above and say hey man thanks yeah okay so i'm digging it because we can't see
the tragically hip anymore so we we have the next best thing.
You have a tribute band, we'll call it, or whatever, cover band.
So we got Sean Cullen, then we have 50 Mission.
They're going to play live, and then what?
That's right.
Then we're going to take an intermission because after that set of music
and comedy, you're going to need a breather and a drink from Long Slice Brewery,
and we're going to be able to satiate your
thirst for sure.
I hear they're good.
They're the second best brewery in the city.
I'll accept that.
I'll accept that. I do
love Great Lakes a lot.
Big fan of Hazy Mama.
Well, your next event
we should bring you in cahoots
with GLB and then we can all be in one family.
Oh, hey.
Yeah.
Because this is, as of right now, this is just a one-off.
But I was just talking to a friend today that's like, why don't we make this like an annual thing?
Why don't we make this an annual hip fest?
Well, then we just have to, you and I have to get together and make sure that, because I do an early September TML.
It was going to be the day before your show and now it's after,
but yeah,
we'll get in cahoots to make sure that,
uh,
FOTMs don't have to choose TMLX versus,
uh,
getting hip to the hip.
Okay.
So I'm,
I'm down with this.
So there's an intermission and people can have a beer and,
you know,
meet,
uh,
Mike Apple.
That's right.
Put that on the poster and toronto
mike okay well yeah i didn't know if i'm not apple ask you should have seen bojana when i uh when
she saw mike apple yesterday this was a video i shared on uh the app formerly known as twitter
you guys should check it out but it's also i'm so glad you're calling it the app formerly known
as twitter and not x no please no way but i will say it's also on torontomic.com.
So go there and check that out.
Okay.
So what happens after the intermission?
After that, we come back and Sean Cullen does some more material.
Wow.
To bring us back into the second half.
And he will throw to our podcast called Getting Hip to the Hip.
And we will record live,
uh,
our final episode for that podcast.
So we're well at work on that.
We've got Tim flying in from Portland,
Oregon.
We've got Pete flying in from Malaga,
Spain.
Wow.
And,
uh,
you know,
they're going to sit down with me and we're going to do our last podcast and
it's going to be sad and cathartic and all the rest of it. But, uh, it's, it's, you know, they're going to sit down with me and we're going to do our last podcast and it's going to be sad and cathartic and all the rest of it. But, uh, it's, it's, you know,
it's the end of the summer. So it's fun to do a, uh, it's fun to record a podcast in front of a
live studio. Like I've done this at some TMLX events and it's a, it's a rush. Like it's, it's,
cause you're not a heavily edited show, right? So it's all going to be like live to tape, right?
Yeah.
Okay. amazing.
So remind me, not remind me because I don't think I know the answer,
but so if things get started at 7.30 with Sean Cullen,
approximately what time will you finish your recording
of the finale of Getting Hip to the Hip?
We go on at 9.10 and we go till 9.45
and then we throw to a whole other set of 50 mission
so you get another set of 50 mission it's gonna be a great night and it's a friday night too so
thank you because uh no one you know we can uh ideally sleep in the next day so this is that's
right okay and it also the last thing i can tell you is it also culminates the end of our silent auction.
Our silent auction will begin this coming Monday.
And it ends the Friday of the show.
And we've got some freaking great prizes.
I got a $500 gift card from Barbarian Steakhouse.
Wow.
I've got an iPad.
But you know, at that steakhousehouse that only gets you an appetizer
I've got an iPad
I've got a KitchenAid sand mixer
I've got
a print of
Gord called Hey Man Thanks
that you should look up on stickmanfinearts.ca
which is great
I've got some pictures from David Bastido,
who is the official hip tour photographer.
Uh,
one that I want to bid on really bad.
Cause it's just a shot of,
of it's just,
well,
it sounds kind of gnarly when I say this,
but it's a shot of Gord's like crotch kind of it's his belt.
You can see his belt and you can see the stuff hanging off his belt and his
hanky in his pocket.
And I hope that's a hanky in his pocket.
Wow.
It's really cool.
We've got an autographed hip record,
a seven-inch,
autographed by the living members of the Tragically Hip.
Which album?
It is Montreal, the Montreal seven-inch.
Oh, cool.
I'm going to be in Montreal tomorrow.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, I'm joking.
You mentioned, you know,
FOTMs driving their kids to uni. Well, I'm
getting it out of the way because I guess they
start earlier in Quebec or something. So
I'm driving my daughter to McGill
tomorrow. Oh, that's awesome.
That explains your tweet the other day that
all your money goes to York and McGill.
That's right. Is that a tweet?
I don't know. That might have been a private
correspondence. Oh, you can delete that. I'm so sorry no no no it's no it's true it's true
all all my money goes towards because uh i worked at a grocery store and paid for my tuition and
for some reason this is not what happens like i have decided that my kids should get a free uh
post-secondary uh well free free to them, I guess.
I don't expect them to work and pay for their stuff.
If they do, that's bonus.
But I mean, me and their mom can cover their expenses.
There you go.
I'm not, I don't, you know, you can edit that out.
Do you think I edit anything out of this podcast?
No, it's funny for our bonus content that we do.
I don't edit anything.
And we started the sixth and last bonus episode we recorded the other day and we got into this huge global warming debate and that's the first
time i've edited shit out i was just like nobody needs to hear why does somebody uh not believe
that global warming is a thing no no gosh no no everybody was everybody was on board it just it
just was so much of a tangent that it was like it got away from us talking about the tragedy.
Don't you find it interesting when you're like,
maybe you bond with someone over a band
or like a sports team or whatever,
and you have all these great chats,
and then somehow maybe something, I don't know,
maybe something in the news pops up,
like let's say, I don't know,
a mugshot of a former president,
and you're like, oh, that's the first time,
that's the first time we had a mugshot
of a former president of the United States.
And then maybe you hit, then that leads to them saying something like uh that election was so rigged i
can't believe that election was rigged and then you have that moment of like you really sometimes
you just don't know and it's like what where do you go from there it's like oh okay um i don't
know where to go from here it depends on how close you are with the person. Because if you're really close to the person,
then you immediately throw it into reverse
and turn your wheel hard left to do that U-turn
and get out of that conversation whatever way you can.
Yeah, abort, abandon ship.
Right.
It depends whether, can you live without this person or whatever.
That's right.
Yeah.
If not, you hit the U-turn.
But if they're a casual friend, it's like like i don't know how to be your friend anymore but anyway it's
interesting times we live in okay so jd now we have a idea of what's going on at the rec where's
the rec room the rec room is uh oh my goodness by the dome right or boulevard bremner boulevard
right across from the sky dome yeah right across from from the Rogers Center. No, it's the diamond, the ballpark
formerly known as Sky Dome.
That's right. Oh, that's a great name.
Yeah, just like the app formerly known as Twitter.
We don't have to change these names.
And as far as Mike's question goes,
it will be
there will be some places to sit
but there will be a dance floor as well.
I expect Apple will be on that dance floor
the whole time. Maybe he's going to bring Bojana i'm not too sure okay so now we have a better idea
so where's the best place to throw people getting hip to the hip.com i think that's the best place
to go or you can do a search on eventbrite but the best place is getting hip to the hip.com and
then you click on the on the main page there's a link for tickets you click on that and you're
good to go okay so you can spend 40 bucks on this ticket,
which is a great value and a great deal,
but you can also spend $36 on this ticket
if you use the promo code FOTM10.
So do that.
Okay, so Jamie, JD, Jamie,
I guess you don't mind if I slip once in a while.
I do slip up, but tell me,
I mean, I'm the guy who said
we're going to kick out cover songs of, I know, we're going to kick out Tragically Hip cover songs, which that sentence would irk Jay Gould because he would want me to say, we're going to kick out.
Yeah, the Tragically Hip.
Cover songs by the Tragically Hip.
Yeah, but then you got to flip it.
You have to twist the sentence.
Yeah, I know.
Because I always write it, the Tragically Hip.
And it's like, you have to think about it so much more.
Yeah.
Because it's weird.
It's awkward.
It's awkward.
But regardless, we all love this band.
That's why we're talking.
And I'm going to share with the FOTMs in this episode.
I'm going to share some of the great covers of the Tragically Hip songs.
And I'm wondering, what is your favorite cover ever of
a tragic of see that's where it's awkward that's right yeah uh the tragically hip song that is
really awkward you want to say what's your favorite cover of a tragically hip song and that's what i'm
gonna say it's my show okay yeah you're the boss what's's your favorite cover? I really like Sarah Pauly doing that version of Courage.
Sweet Hereafter.
From the Sweet Hereafter.
The most accessible Adam McGuigan movie there is.
It was the one that I could actually watch the whole thing and really enjoy.
And don't know if he's an FOTM, sorry.
Not yet. Not yet.
Not yet, but he'll be there.
He'll be in the chair soon enough.
Unless I've just scared him off.
But yeah, I think it's lovely.
It's haunting.
It's eerie sort of almost.
It really fits the tone of that film.
And she does a great job.
I don't know that she's bad at anything.
It's almost irritating.
Well,
she has an Oscar JD.
That's right.
I forgot about that.
Yeah.
She's,
she's an Oscar winner and yet her version of courage is a haunting and
beautiful.
And I love it too.
Yeah.
Watch the band
through a bunch of dancers
Quickly
Follow the unknown
Something
More familiar Something more familiar
Quickly
Something familiar
Courage, my word
Didn't come, it doesn't matter
Sleepwalk
So fast asleep in the mountain.
There's a lamp out that pays off all of your background
And piss off all your surroundings
Courage, my word Didn't come, it doesn't matter Courage, my word Didn't come, it doesn't matter, courage, my word
Didn't come, it doesn't matter, courage
Couldn't come at a worse time
Time There's no
Simple explanation
For anything important
In the ocean
Yeah, the humor
Tragedy
Consisting
On necessities
On necessities
We live in with
The consequences
Under pressure
Under pressure I'm not too precious Courage, my word
Didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, my word
Didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage, my word, didn't come, it doesn't matter
Courage couldn't come at a worse time
Speaking of the app formerly known as Twitter,
I posed the question on Twitter,
what is your favorite cover of a song by the Tragically Hip?
Michael Lang, the only person other than yours truly to appear at all 12 TMLX events.
We'll see if he's at TMLX 13 on September 7th from 6 to 9 p.m. at Great Lakes Brewery.
Southern Etobicoke campus will be fed by palma pasta.
But I digress.
Michael Lang wrote,
I always liked the stereophonics version of Fiddler's Green.
September 17
For a girl I know it's Mother's Day The sun is gonna lift
And that's where he will stay
The wind on the weather vane
Tear in blue eyes sailing in
As false staff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in fiddler's green
Tiny knotted heart
Well, I guess it never worked too good.
The timber tore apart.
And the water gouged the wood.
You could hear her whispered prayer
For men at mass that always land
The same wind that moves ahead Moves a boy through fiddler's grain
Nothing changed anyway
Oh, nothing's changed anyway
Oh, anytime today
He doesn't know us so
And there's nowhere that he's really been
But he won't travel alone, no, not in fiddler's green.
Balloons are filled with rain, as children's eyes tend to sleep with me
And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in fiddor's grin. Not to be outdone by Michael Lang,
it's the VP of Sales, Tyler Campbell,
who wants us to know he digs
FOTM Hawksley Workman's cover of Emperor Penguin.
Like the tone of your trumpet
Come on, let's spill some paint let's raise a glass of
milk to the end of another day and to the kiss that's still intangible the kids are all right
just unmanageable they won't do a damn thing that you say say Your voice is all detached on a radio wave breeze
We have another caller with a bachelor degree
Talking alien invasion is the only chance for unity
Well, sorry to interrupt you, caller
But it's a physical impossibility
It's a physical impossibility
It's a physical impossibility
You'd be tossed up or washed up, the narrator relates
In a Spartan and Arctic camp, walk for many days Meet with ever a penguin
Devotion to the egg
And their women are swimming
From half an ocean away Don't sound so detached, cause this is you and me
Just give me your opinion, before you turn to leave
Your crust is just incredible, and the radio was edible
When you said, don't wipe your asses with your sleeve
It's a physical impossibility
You're a physical impossibility
It was a physical impossibility El Grego chimes in to let us know
that the performance of the Tragically Hip
with Feist on lead vocals of It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken still gives
him shivers. Now this is the band, but Gord sadly no longer with us. It's Leslie Feist on lead.
Is that a cover? Debate this amongst yourselves. I don't really care. I'm going to allow it.
yourselves. I don't really care. I'm going to allow it. Here it is. Congratulations to the Tragically Hip on a well-deserved honor. And Gord Downie is greatly missed by so many because we
know how much Gordon cared about other people during his life and career as a singer-songwriter
of international acclaim. I'm standing here beside the Alan Slate Stage,
still under construction here at historic Massey Hall,
where I shall be presenting myself, hopefully in the fall.
But tonight, our humanitarian award recipients,
in a very rare appearance,
will be performing in this beautiful house of music,
along with their dear friend, Leslie Feist.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Tragically Hip. In the color of the night
In all the smoke in one light gives way to
shaky movements
improvisational
scales
a forest of whispering
speakers
that swear that we will
Get with the times
In current health to stay
Let's get friendship right
Get life day to day
In the forget-gust-gates dream
For a countervailing war
Diverse as ever seems, receding on a need to know
In the face of a full-meat meal, as to almost make it low
For a good life we might have to weaken Find somewhere to go
There's no somewhere we're needed
Find somewhere to grow
There's no somewhere we're needed In the color of the night
You almost spoke in one light
Almost spoke in one line Gives way to shaking movements
Improvisational skill
A forest of whispering speakers
Let's swear that we will
Get with the tide
Anchor and help the state that we will get with the time in the current
healthy state
let's get friendship
right
get life day to day
in the forget
your sweet dreams
for the council
and the war
the first time
we've seen the ceiling on the meeting door Until they look, whoa Diverse as ever seen
The seeding on the mead, you know
In the face of the need
To almost make it
For a good life
We might have to begin
Find somewhere to go
Somewhere we need Find somewhere to go Let's go somewhere we need it
Find somewhere to go
Let's go somewhere we need it
Find somewhere to go
Let's go somewhere we need it
Find somewhere to go
Let's go where we need
Cause when you forget what speaks true
We can hang your head up
Endeavor says that the seals will know which way to go FOTM Justin Rutledge
has many great covers
of tragically hip songs.
David McPherson, who is returning to Toronto Mike soon,
he's got a new book coming out.
He chose Justin Rutledge's version of Grace 2. He said I'm fabulously rich
Come on just let's go
She kinda bit her lip
Gee, I don't know
But I can guarantee
There'll be no knock on the door I can guarantee
There'll be no knock on the door
I'm a total pro
That's what I'm here for I come from downtown
All ready for you
Armed with will and determination
Grace too
The secret rules of engagement Are hard to endure
When the appearance of conflict
Beats the appearance of force
But I can guarantee
You'll be no knock on the door
I can guarantee
That you're all pro here
That's what I'm not going down Born ready for you Armed and scared against frustration
Grace to be Thank you. I'm here now, Mom Here, now Mom, hell
Here, now
Stephen Dame, who maintained a website I frequented often
to learn about the music of the Tragically Hip,
he points out that FOTM George Strombolopoulos
had a tribute show in 2016 that featured many bands
doing many covers of the Tragically Hip.
One such song, requested by Marcasaur,
is By Divine Rights' Ahead by a Century.
Here's By Divine Rights.
First thing we climb a tree
Then maybe then we'll talk
Or sit quietly
And listen to our thoughts
Illusions that someday
we'll be cast in a
golden light
there's no dress
rehearsal
this is
our life
that's when the hornet stung me
I had a feverish dream
Bigger than the dawn
And tonight we'll smoke them out
You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century Stare at the morning shroud
And then the day begins
I tempted your crowd
You tempted my head
Rainfalls in real time
Rainfalls through the night
No dress rehearsal
This is our life.
And that's where the horn gets stung me I have a serious dream
Bigger than the dust
And tonight we must, we must
You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century You are a century
Disappointment is bringing me down
Bringing me down I'm not afraid of the dark You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century
You are ahead by a century You are ahead by a century
You are ahead head by century You are a head by century
The disappointment is bringing the doubt
What is by Divine Right.
What a beautiful version of Ahead by a Century.
They had a great tour.
Jeff Dudding chimes in with the Skydiggers
doing the first part of the Depression Suite.
They call it The Rock. Under the pillow, I bury my head and try to shut Chicago out.
As it turns out, there's a whole other world of sound
Of perfect fifths, low skids and arctic howls
All saying, are you going through something?
Are you going through something?
Are you going through something?
Under the pillow, a little room to breathe The early morning lights A pale cranberry
I hear the ah
Not now, ah
Of a siren far away
and closing steadily
it's saying are you
going through something
are you going through something?
Cause I, I, I am too.
Under the pillow, I can hear you whispering.
Are you going through something?
Well, honey, are you going through something? Are you going through something?
Then I, I, I am too
And I, I, I am too
Both Scott Merritt and Joni Schmitke
requested Ruben and the Darks, cover of Bob Cajun. I left your house this morning
But a quarter after night
Could have been the Willie Nelson
And could have been the Willie Nelson And could have been the one
When I left your house this morning
Just a little after night
It was in Bobcage
I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time
I drove back to town this morning
With working on my mind
I thought I may be quitting
Thought of leaving it behind
Went back to bed this morning And as I'm pulling down the blinds
Yeah, the sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time
Well, that night in Toronto
With its checkerboard floors
And we were riding horseback
And keeping the order restored
Until the men they couldn't hear
Stepped to the mic and said
And their voices rang
with that airing twang I got to your house this morning
Just a little after night
In the middle of that riot
Couldn't get you off my mind
Saw my chance this morning
Just a little after night
Cause it was in Bob Cajun
I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time
One star at a time
One star at a time
One star at a time The response was kind of amazing.
I want to shout out Hamilton Mike,
who wants to hear Alexis on Fire's live version of Fully Completely.
Speaking of Alexis on Fire, I want to shout out James Patterson.
He wants city and colors
locked in the trunk of a car.
Rock Golf.
Doesn't think I'll believe it,
but Rock Golf I absolutely do.
He likes Justin Bieber
performing Wheat Kings.
Kevin and Alberta.
He digs The Trues and their version of Grace 2.
John R. loves Harry Vitro
and Northern Rangers Ahead by a Century.
FOTM Danny Elwell
enjoys Jeremy Ledbetter and his trio's approach to gift shop.
Mike from K-Dub,
he loves FOTM Tom Wilson's cover of Fiddler's Green. Scott Kendrick enjoys Kelly and the Ding Dongs with Dave Carroll, Another
Midnight. Multiple people love the Arkells and their version of My Music at Work, particularly the version from Way Home in 2016.
That's Michael MPH and Mike Weaver,
who enjoys the version from Town Ballroom Night 2.
Jay Gerland loves Japan Droids
and their cover of Nautical Disaster.
Multiverse Andy shouts out FOTM Ron Sexsmith's cover
of Ahead by a Century.
Kathy says there's a great version of Stephen Page with the odds doing Honey Please.
Miss V loves Chris Koster's version of Fully Completely.
Cowboy Doug Gilmore loves Sarah Harmer's version of Thompson Girl.
Steve shouts out Jim Cuddy's version of Bob Cajun.
Mdoves enjoys the Clarks
cover of Wheat Kings. Paul Broadfoot says it's no question it's FOTM's The Watchmen doing Wheat
Kings. Tom Ace loves Pigeon Camera from the August Cooperative. Without a doubt, there are so many
great covers of Tragically Hip songs,
and they're beloved by many FOTMs and maybe just a few people who found my tweet on Twitter.
I'm going to close with a cover by an FOTM. This is Davnet Doyle in her version of Bob Cajun. I left your house this morning
About a quarter after night
Could have been the whale in El Salvador
It could have been the wheel in Elsan It could have been the wine
When I left your house this morning
It was a little after nine
It was in Bobcassian
I saw the constellations
reveal themselves one star at a time
Drove back to town this morning
With work in my mind
I thought of maybe quitting
Thought of leaving it behind
Went back to bed this morning
As I'm pulling down the blind
Well, the sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time
That night in Toronto
With its checkerboard flows riding on horseback and keeping orders
stalled till the man they couldn't make stepped to the mic and sang and their voices rang with
the aryan twang Got to your house this morning
Just a little after
nine
In the middle of that riot
Couldn't get you off my mind
So I'm at your house this morning
Just a little after 9
It was in my occasion
I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time Occasion
Occasion
Occasion
And that
brings us to the end of our 1313th show that's 1313
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to kick things off
and to tell us more about your great event
on September 1st, 2023
Everybody should grab a ticket now
and be there
It's going to be a great time
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