Song Of the Day: December 4, 2005
The Smugglers - Buddy Holly Convention
From the EP "Buddy Holly Convention,"
Mint/Lookout! Records, 1997
From the EP "Buddy Holly Convention,"
Mint/Lookout! Records, 1997
I do love this song, not least because of my own lifelong history of poor eyesight and little luck with contact lenses. (Try growing up in west Texas and wearing contacts: one March sandstorm and you're taking 20 pounds of topsoil out of each eyeball.) But mostly, this is here so I can give a shoutout to the best podcast in the world. Smugglers leader Grant Lawrence is also a radio dude in his native Vancouver, British Columbia, and he hosts the CBC Radio Three podcast, a weekly condensation of his nationally-broadcast Saturday night radio series showcasing the latest in Canadian indie music. I am well known among my peers for being just about the geekiest Canadiana fanboy who has never actually lived above the 48th parallel -- I'm not kidding, as I write this, I'm wearing a t-shirt with the logo of a defunct Canadian hockey team, the Quebec Nordiques, and a baseball cap that has a badge on the side bearing the '50s-vintage logo of the CBC, the national broadcast company -- but even those who don't consider Toronto the greatest city in the world will find much to love here.
-Stewart Mason
2 Comments:
Great song!
I love every single record that The Smugglers put out.
I will never forget seeing the Smugglers live in Boston. They all wore suits, they had choreography for their songs, they had a dance contest and the winner got to kiss the smuggler of their choice (in this case a male audience member who kissed the large bespectacled bassist Beez). I think this band has somewhat succumbed to the problem of members getting married and having less interest in rock - which is a damn shame.
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