Twain pulled out all the stops in a dazzling visual spectacle, during her first of three Toronto appearances on the Rock This Country tour. Nick Krewen Music, Published on Thu Jun 25 2015 Shania Twain 3 stars June 24 at the Air Canada Centre. It seems that her two-year stint in Vegas has taught our Shania a few tricks of the performance trade. In the homegrown pop-country superstar’s first Toronto…
Singer with eight CCMA nominations kicks off Boots & Hearts Festival Thursday night Nick Krewen Music, Published on Wed Jul 30 2014 When Canadian country star Brett Kissel hits the road for a nationwide tour with headliner Brad Paisley in October, the eight-time Canadian Country Music Award nominee will be financing the trek by selling a few of his cows. Seriously. The 23-year-old Kissel, who was raised on a 100-year-old…
Story by Nick Krewen | September 13, 2013 For SOCAN Words and Music “Hey, Nashville! Break’s over!” Jason Blaine remembers the gentle joshing he received from fellow workers during the few years he toiled at a filing cabinet factory back in the ‘90s. As a then-aspiring country music singer and songwriter who dreamed of living in Music City, Tennessee, and making an impact on country music, Blaine was ribbed…
Story by Nick Krewen | December 26, 2011 He’s known for his amazing country ballad “Trail In Life,” but British Columbia’s Dean Brody truly knows what it means to have trials in life. In the past three years alone, the 36-year-old singer and songwriter – a recent hat trick winner at the 2011 Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Awards for Album (Trail In Life), and for Single and Songwriter of…
PUBLISHED IN CANADIAN MUSICIAN IN OCTOBER ’97 k.d. lang: waiting to exhale By Nick Krewen On her latest album, k.d. lang is smoking. Literally. Drag, the eighth album to be exhaled from the talented larynx of the Ninth Wonder Of The World, is a collection of songs that share the common theme of smoking, a topic sure to raise the hackles of the politically virtuous and…
