John Goodman
This We rek Editor. :

AT the, end of Big, Yellow T fani’s new CD the
patient listener will find a mystery song waiting,

Packed Up. and. Gane? is not listed onthe jackety:
buris, tagged on at the end ofthe last track, “Tovita
learned th at (produces) Shae) Wrinch’s parents left

hintara campsite ay a child,” says
the band’s ead singer Jeannie
“They took the kids out
cane weekend and forgot about
Shimiwhen they headed: hume. We
“had a melody, mixed it with new
Ayries and recorded it live off the
floar,” The'w ords 10. the song are
printed on the: CD case asa lett
to “Mam & Dad" from "SS
* peérlect way to end the, celectic col-
‘lection at songs on ‘A Far Fetched.
Tales

BIG YELLOW: TAXI:
AFAR FETCHED TALE
"Soe CROOKED FENCE
= THINK ABOUT Me
: = Tinteves $8 FRIEND
— In THE MIGDLE SOMEWHERE
~$ Aiwars Cry
= ROADSIDE :
LIGHTING Crick GENERAL:
Pee 3 STORE!” ‘
“THe Crore House STEPS...
“ RARROAD TRACKS
= WANDERING WOMAN
| Bapy (Eat My STEW) °:
“= PACKED Up AnD GONE
: (Au SONGS BY BIG YELLOW, TAK: {
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Wrinch’s Beatty): Lane.
“Producer: Stephen >
worked with Ray
“MeLachlan,

“Conde, 8 Sarah

tour, leaving Wrinch. and the band
1 complete..the final mixes. The

Ctwoo men “share "the production a

‘credit with Big Yellow Taxi

“"We had to send Stephen: tapes. of
: rough ‘mixes Sand! he was having a hard. rime listening wo.
says. the.

theny: because he coulde’r find'a tape. player,”

Sone in his tour van was broken. He ‘called

s-from a
wive suggestion

The final-result

asingle Joni Mitchell se ong in sight “We are all bigs.

“drummer Darrell Stables: hen: the

~ made adot of fiends whi

The albunt was, recorded over a:
sixemonth period last winter ‘ate:
Studias. ;
Sikleva (who's

Veda-Hille, and’ Mac -
Moore) | had_ 16 joins Ray Condocen:

Ny": phonein, a hotel dobby in ‘Tennessee. to.

as worth the phone bills, And not Ta

fans of her music
band in name only. :
If cornered Bigs Yellow! ‘Tayi describe their original

| COnIpOsTONS as “hamespun boogic folk music” but.”

thev'd probably rather not puta label on it. :
Same cuts on A Fer Ferched Tah might re inind lis:
teners of Richard and Linda Thompson y especially: the

*jnterplay between Tolmie’s vocals and Pilling’s electric
‘guitar. Rubin and Stables (is their a henter name for a
drummer?) complete the Taxi ride On one cut >

Rubin's cello is the last sound you hearias if she. W

bringing the sangin fora landing.

The band began onthe, stre ets of “tora fiir,

ATS AYO ay jeanne, Chris'and: Jovita busked their way
to-bachelor- degrees. They added West, Va ancOUVEr”
moved, to the
maintand,

Songs off their first CD iw rere atured reiwularl “041
the teen TV series Madisan fast season, And.the band.:
> touring. “Tf you ever go to
ire you make it: 40 the Dawson Ci i
: eld “mnonially?

the Yukon ta
Music Festival”

around the third + Week of fulys We had sticha? fun ime

owe even-credic them, onthe new GD: rybouly.

whoever plays there: wants 10°be° invited back, Tt

small enough thar by thee enc ;

know everybody j 7

A full tour isn"

planned until nest,

sunimer but they are

booking local, shows, :

suchas last-S2

‘performas

Vancouver’s:Savary:

Istand Pie: Co. And a

svideo is-also i inthe

Works, Based on’ “thes

strength of their, new:

“material Rig. Yellow

jour has iw t begun, .

coming home to Canadian cinema ;

; crackle, with “quthenticirs
“Fitzgerald's ‘gifts‘as an
xperimental filmmaker and
satistying storyteller combine
“wo creaic'an exuberant and
moving contemporary, fable
fe

(Traders) quietly assured. :
Z Sweet William to acclaimed”
Jew Zealand actréss Kerry
Fox’s (An Angel at My Tabl
-and Shallow: Grave) delight
ful, tough talking sister, 10 5.
‘Ashley Melssac’s cameo as
the fiddler at r Rosemary's

of The-Vancouver 5. |:
International Film: Festival's
John. Dippong says of The
Hanging Garden: “While
reconnecting, witly (Seana.
McKenna); drunken’ dad Mac
Peter, MacNeill) and a,
devour Catholic: grandmoth re
iting dementia — W ian:
also connects, quite Titerally,:
with the ghosts af-his pas
s boyhood self fits in and |

vith a mom family s secre
outcome ‘ofa pre

that is half slice-of-li
: half, surrealist fant

dram

says Tolmie, “boat theyearea ature

k you t el yous

BIG Yellow Taxi_(left.to right) Darr

Joyita, Rub n (bass,

banjo, vocais);

eanne

cello);

Totmie (lead vocals,

Christopher, Pilling (guitars,

guitar)