ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OCT. 1, 1998 By Steve Newton When you write for a weekly paper most of your interviews with touring musicians happen over the phone, because the story has to be out before your subject hits town. But once in a while you get to actually meet a performer in the flesh and … Continue reading Colin Linden inspired by Howlin’ Wolf and George Chuvalo on Raised by Wolves
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Canadian blues-roots great Colin Linden is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON APRIL 15, 1993 By Steve Newton When major-label recording artists do interviews to promote a new release, they usually go on about how it’s the best one they’ve ever made, how making it sapped all the artistic energy their souls could muster—that sort of thing. Then there’s Colin Linden, who plays the … Continue reading Canadian blues-roots great Colin Linden is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet
Colin James shines bright on the talent-packed Limelight
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON NOV. 24, 2005 By Steve Newton On Limelight, his new, Juno Award-worthy CD, Colin James pulls off a sharp cover of Bob Dylan's "Watchin' the River Flow", but the coolest thing about that track is what happens at the end of it. Just as the final strains of the 12-bar-blues number fade … Continue reading Colin James shines bright on the talent-packed Limelight
Blackie & the Rodeo Kings ebullient about a Band classic
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON NOV. 22, 2006 By Steve Newton Like Brian Wilson used to do in his Beach Boys days, Colin Linden gets around. When I catch him on his cellphone he’s just leaving a Calgary hotel with his fellow members of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings—Tom Wilson and Stephen Fearing—for a sound check at … Continue reading Blackie & the Rodeo Kings ebullient about a Band classic