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Michael Becker RECORD REVIEW

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Grievous Angels — Watershed, Jimmy Bcyle Records 1993

Guitarist, singer aad song- writer Chuck Angus ranks among the essential voices to be heard in Canada today.

Well, let’s step back from that statement a bit. His actual singing voice does happen to be as flat as most of this country, but boy, does he tell some stories.

Our stories, in fact. Heart- wrenching, big country elemen-

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Small personal stragles and Mangia Vie tones are turned grand and epic in songs firms rooted in place RitMfand, Grand Netrows and sundry paints across this great nation ot Ours,

That Angus has chosen to five in an abandened silver mining town (Cobak, Ontario) north ot the watershed, speaks volumes of the perspective trom which he cones.

The music of French Canade and the Maritimes provide the matrix for much ef Watershed. There’s all kinds of truth and grit to be tound on this hidden trea- sure,

ia] ace : Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Sleeps With Angels, Reprise Records/WEA 1994 The ghost of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain presides over this outing. Young frames what is fundamen-

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The reduced essence of the matter is tound in the track Blue Eden.

Young's slow thunder guitar rolls Gutall ragged sustain and feedback as he intones: “Embracing, distorting, support: ing, comforting, cans incing you, consoling vou, controlling you, destroving you, allover you.”

The blue chill is lifted momentarily on Piece of Crap, a hilarious and stoppy flat-out rocker,

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Elvis Costella & The Attractions —Imperial Bedroom, Rykadisc/ Denon 1994

The digital re-issues of this great catalogue of pop output continue to bring to the surface a wealth of formerly rare and unre- leased material.

Almost Blue, Costello’s Nashville sojourn, is generously fortitied with five live tracks from a gig in Aberdeen, and six adai- tional tracks, some of which

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As with the reissues that came besare, these discs include thorough notes trom Costello about the history of cach ef the projects,

What's left to say? The guy is a pop Music xenius and this series is a must-have for jars.

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