Thursday, May 5, 2011

Episode 56!

Welcome to Episode 56 of the Prairie Belles Podcast! To listen to the podcast, either click on the mp3 player below OR click on "LISTEN TO EPISODE 56" to open a media player on your desktop. You can also check us out on iTunes!



LISTEN TO EPISODE 56

What we mentioned this week:
FRIDAY

  1. Northern Lights Folk Club presents Ulrich, Henderson & Forbes @ the TransAlta Arts Barns $25 7pm
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  2. Sean Burns Trio @ the Crowne & Anchor Pub in Castledowns 9:30pm 
  3. Jeremy Fisher with Sean McCann $25 8pm Haven Social Club
    We featured Jeremy's song Come Fly Away.
SATURDAY
  1. The Architects with Dead & Divine, Fall City Fall & Counter parts @ the Avenue Theatre 7pm $18 E-TICKETS
  2. Bobby Cameron @ the Blue Chair Café $20 8pm
  3. Tunnel Six @ the Yardbird Suite $18 for members, $22 for non members 8pm




Ask Karl Andriuk about his perspective on musical trends, and he’ll tell you about his first car.

“Coming from a school that had a large vocational program of auto mechanics and a large population of students, there were plenty of vehicles around that had a lot of time and money devoted to them. This never really impressed me,” says Karl. “So like a lot of teenagers, I rebelled. I moved in the opposite direction, and opted for a 1977 Renault Le Car.”
At the age of 19, Karl began gigging. Just as he avoided the expensive sports cars of his high school peers, he also kept away from the musical trends of his day, particularly 80s glam bands. Instead, Karl sought out the honky-tonk country dives. “We had to play country, but also blues, R&B, 50’s doo-wop, top 40, and classic rock. It was challenging from a performance perspective,” he explains.
Karl spent the next 12 years in and out of the country dives, which were often in the main street hotels of small towns. “The band would get rooms upstairs. I can’t tell you how many mornings I woke up to the jukebox booming below, signifying the start of another day.”
Karl’s perspectives were opened up even more by his years spent with his wife, Meredith, in Florida and Boston. Florida’s music scene was very different from Alberta. “You couldn’t make any money playing in the bars, at least not compared to Alberta’s standards. There are a lot of musicians that will play for virtually nothing for a chance to be close to the beach, I guess.”
After three years in Florida, Karl and Meredith moved to Boston. Boston’s music scene didn’t disappoint. “The music scene is really rich with a stunning amount of talented people,” says Karl, adding that Berkeley graduates hundreds of guitarists every year. After four years in Boston, Karl and Meredith returned to Edmonton.
Karl has put out two previous solo albums, 2008’s Suite 912 and 2009’s Dancing Liars. Karl says his songwriting process is very succinct. “My approach is to sit down and sing the idea. Then I arrange the song around that,” says Karl. “For the latest CD, I wrote about half the song ideas over two nights last November. The rest came in January. On the other hand, I think at the last count I had come up with 120 ideas to pick from. Some nights it just comes together.”
Karl describes his latest album as roots based, with country influences. Most songs deal with themes around how people explore their own boundaries. While this album has been described as “old meets new,” Karl says it was never his intention to create a contemporary sounding record.
We featured Karl's song Cigarette's.

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