Tanks are rolling through the streets of a desert town, the 53 year old leader of the free world can run 3 miles in 20 an d a half minutes, people are living longer, people are dying by the millions, there are rich and there are poor, some give a damn and some don't. Canadian singer/songwriter Greg MacPherson gives a damn. MacPherson is the new champion of a songwriting tradition stretching back to Woody Guthrie and including voices like Jo Strummer and Bruce Springsteen. Loud, passionate voices saying things about their place in all of this change.
These songs walk an inscrutable line between beauty and determination. A place where the ordinary becomes important and actions bring hope. Songs that capture the imaginations of young and old alike.
Greg MacPherson was born 30 years ago in the Sydney City Hospital, half a kilometer from the most polluted body of water in North America, and half an hour walk from his family home at CFS Sydney. He grew up on radar bases all over Canada; a base-brat in the shadow of the cold war, and a student of regional diversity and disparity. He was raised in front of a television, rode a unicycle to high school, paid his rent at times by winning disco contests, dug graves in a cemetery for 6 years, and got a degree in Labour History in the mid-nineties. Along the way MacPherson learned how to work hard and he hasn't looked back. Multiple day jobs and a relentless touring schedule has seen Greg a janitor playing his music for punk rockers in Washington D.C. and a factory worker playing for 15,000 people on a folk festival stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The ordinary becomes important.
Greg MacPherson - vocals, guitar
Steve Bates - guitar, keyboards, etc
Jason Tait - drums |
