LISTEN HERE: Ben Sures at the Yardbird
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Hear Edmonton folk hero’s new live album
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Ben Sures keeps it old-school! He sells CDs. He eschews drums from time to time. He is unconcerned with “singles.” Yet he has carved himself a unique place in the Canadian folk canon with his evocative and honest songs, some of which aren’t even folk. Sures is his own genre.
His latest project is the second half of a double live album, Live at the Yardbird. It was recorded, as it turns out, live at the Yardbird. On the heels of their first session released to CD last year, Poema Poematis (which featured horn arrangements by recent Edmonton Music Prize-winner Audrey Ochoa), the new record comes out Thursday with a live show at – you guessed it – the Yardbird Suite.
One of the new tracks Sures wants to highlight is called Winter Frisky, an old-fashioned waltz in three-quarter time, complete with fiddle (and no drums). The song is about his youth in Winnipeg.
“It’s sad in all the right ways,” he says. “It’s very much a Winnipeg winter romance song. When I sing that song, I can feel how I felt in Winnipeg in my early 20s, spinning my wheels. Trudging through snow. It’s loosely based on a true story – it’s based on most of my true story of that era, and of those relationships.”
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Ben Sures has also written a book, The Boy Who Walked Backwards, on sale now in select stores and online.
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