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Special Edition Podcast - Songs to Remember: Indie Music Muses on War with Corb Lund, Kathleen Edwards, & more

Special Edition Podcast - Songs to Remember: Indie Music Muses on War with Corb Lund, Kathleen Edwards, & more

Posted by Amanda Putz on Nov 11, 2009

Canadian independent music is made up of -- for the most part -- a generation that has only observed war passively through media, entertainment, or through the pages of history books. Despite that, War has been and continues to be the muse of an inordinate number of tunes by this country's young songwriters. I decided today was a good day to release a podcast about that.

I have interviews with Miss Emily Brown and Olenka & The Autumn Lovers about how their own family histories lead them each on a journey into WWII through song. I spoke to Kathleen Edwards about her trip to play for the troops in Afghanistan last Christmas and what it meant to her. Grant spoke to Saint Alvia for School of Rock feature about their band name, plus I'll play music from Corb Lund, Peter Katz, Forest City Lovers, & Carolyn Mark with NQ Arbuckle.

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  1. merc82
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    re: Special Edition Podcast - Songs to Remember: Indie Music Muses on War with Corb Lund, Kathleen Edwards, & more

    Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by merc82

    Your Remembrance Day tribute was a bit of a slap in the face from the first note. Learn the difference between Last Post and Taps please. I'm sure you have a fit if someone confused Hidden Cameras with Broken Social Scene.

  2. Amanda Putz
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    re: Special Edition Podcast - Songs to Remember: Indie Music Muses on War with Corb Lund, Kathleen Edwards, & more

    Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by Amanda Putz

    Hi merc82, since we definitely don't mean to offend. The two pieces of music are strikingly similar (even hard to tell apart depending on whether the performer is speeding up the piece or slowing it down).

    One (Last Post) is used by Commonwealth military and the other by American (Taps).

    We used Taps because we only have permission to use music from certain Canadian artists and someone who allows us to podcast his album recorded Taps on it. We weren't choosing America over Canada for any reason other than not wanting to get sued. Corb Lund, a proud Canadian and Albertan, themed an entire album about the horse in combat. Taps was likely a conscious choice for him because of the many references to American history in that particular album.

    I didn't refer to it in my intro to the show but if you were reading the music log for the show that's where you (I presume?) would have seen it listed as Taps.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Post

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taps

     

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    Posted on Jan 19, 2010 by swddswdd

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