LISTEN HERE: Former soldier ‘turns the page’
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Listen to Tim Isberg’s new Bob Seger cover
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As a high ranking officer in the Canadian Armed Forces for 30 years, Tim Isberg was deployed in Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and in the Middle East. He’s seen a lot.
These days, from his home base in Sherwood Park (he moved here from Jerusalem in 2011), Isberg is seeing action on concert stages and recording studios. The (retired) major’s latest album is a folk-rock offering called Running on the Edge, which will be released worldwide on Friday, Feb. 22. His latest single is a groovy and mellow cover of Bob Seger’s Turn the Page.
Isberg says, “That’s a song I’ve been playing quite a bit, and it got such a good reaction from the crowd that I was prompted to record it. The song matched the way I play the acoustic guitar, but also the sentiment of the song, going into music, being on the road, turning another page – and that’s literally where I’m at. As an older emerging musician, I take whatever I can get. This is a big deal for me. The song is certainly a reflection of who I am. I can’t erase 30 years of army life – and I wouldn’t want to.”
Listen here:
Isberg and his band will play an album release show Friday at the Norwood Legion (11150 82 Street), for the Uptown Folk Club.
He will also stage a special multi-media show April 18 at Festival Place, called 25 Years After: Songs and Stories of a Canadian Soldier in Rwanda, with live and recorded music, images, stories and personal accounts of the genocide in that country in 1994. Maj. Isberg was in the thick of it.
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