Picture it: I'm scurrying around my half-packed apartment like a church mouse amongst dust bunnies. As I flit from room to room, losing focus on which box is full and which shelf I was emptying,
the iPod unfurls the audio backdrop to the scene.As usual, she seems to know that crooning out
Ryan Adams' "I Love a Woman that Rains" followed by
Bruce Springsteen's "My Father's House" would be just what I need to keep on track. And smile. And sing.
Then from stage left she turns to
The Page. Not Jimmy, but Ottawa's own
Chris. I've always loved
Chris Page's tunes but I usually hear them in their own context on the album, between those of other
Kelp bands, or here on Radio 3 among fellow indie-Can colleagues.
Let me tell you, hearing
Keep Me On Your Radar right after two heavyweights like Springsteen and the king of car-crash-country Ryan Adams proved that
Chris Page can write the kind of tune that will bind him firmly in the pages of musical history. This is one heck of a song, in any context. Chris Page, Keep Me On Your Radar.
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