The Music Issue (#87, Spring 2013)
Contents:
MUSIC FEATURES
- Introduction by Dan Wells
- Liner Notes by Mark Kingwell
- I’m Trying to Explain Something that Can’t Be Explained:
On Bob Dylan and Big-Ass Truth
by Lewis MacLeod - Past Perfect by Lorna Jackson
- Willie P. Bennett by Ray Robertson
- A New Tradition: On the Afterlife of Jazz by Paul Wells
- Singing Songs for Somebody’s Sake:
Who Is That Al Tuck?
by Marion MacLeod - A John Fahey Salute by Norm Sibum
- The Minor Fall, the Major Lift
by Robert J. Wiersema
THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
- Brian Busby: Tan Ming by Lan Stormont
POETRY
- Four Poems by Robert Melançon
FEATURE
- School Is No Place for a Reader
by Jennifer A. Franssen
THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
- Paul Quarrington’s Whale Music
by Michael Deforge
FICTION
- Johnny Cash in the Viper Room
by Mark Anthony Jarman
USED AND RARE
- Secrets of the Book Trade Number 4:
On Flashing, or, Things Found in Books
by David Mason
CNQ TIMELINE
- 1968 by Brian Busby
INTERVIEW
- Interview with Michael Schmidt by Evan Jones
REVIEWS
- Bruce Whiteman on Sandra Djwa’s Journey With No Maps
- Emily Donaldson on Stephen Marche’s Love and the Mess We’re In
- Adrian Michael Kelly on Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl
- Mark Sampson on Alice Munro’s Dear Life
- Devon Code on Ian Colford’s The Crimes of Hector Tomás
- Mike Barnes on E. Blagrave’s Tilt
- Sean Rogers on Bart Beaty’s Comics versus Art
- Michael Basilières on Rawi Hage’s Carnival
- Patricia Robertson on Luanne Armstrong’s The Light Through the Trees
- Ross McKie on Jan Zwicky’s The Book of Frog
- Shane Neilson on Jim Johnstone’s Sunday, the locusts
CNQ COLLECTION
- Al Tuck Flexi-Disc by Dan Wells