On the Playlist 31MAY2019…

Been a while since I have posted a playlist post and I can't believe that I haven't posted this artist yet. James Keelaghan and, in particular, his second album "Small Rebellions" which I originally had on tape and played a lot on road trips in my Honda Civic when I was in graduate school. James Keelaghan is originally from Calgary and studied at University of Calgary which is where I did my master's degree. I don't recall where I acquired the tape but once I had it, I played it a lot and was one of the tapes that was on a heavy rotation in the car. When I was in graduate school I bought a new Honda Civic hatchback. I loved that car and did a lot of camping in it. I would often just take off for a weekend and drive around Southern Alberta and British Columbia. I remember one particular trip down through Southern British Columbia driving through snow and listening to this album on the tape deck in between getting local CBC stations on the radio. Years later I was watching TV and there was a show about those roads called "Highway to Hell" and it brought back some memories of road trips back in the day. I love all the songs on this album but my favorite has to be Departure Bay. This is a song about taking the BC Ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo. The harbor where the ferry leaves from is amazing and this song captures it perfectly. If you are ever in Vancouver you need to go out there just to see the ferry terminal and small town of Horseshoe bay. Keelaghan was a history major and his songs all relate to Canadian history or social concerns. Great stuff and the memories are flooding back of good times in Western Canada.

James Keelaghan - Small Rebellions