DJs call it digging through the crates. In late 2009, I found myself searching for an old recording of the Log Driver’s Waltz I’d made with several artists, including Wade Hemsworth, the author, Anna McGarrilgle with 2 other members of the iconic Montreal group “Mountain City Four” So down to the dusty old boxes in the basement I went, to find more than just a long-lost outtake. I found a recording recording of concerts done at Expo 86, Vancouver, with Christophe Obermeir. Another 10 inch reel proved to be a copy of a 15 piece band accompanying me singing my complete setting of “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Coleridge. Then a recording with my then ex-band, Rings and Things, of House of D, a powerful song I had written about a teenage girl in New Orleans, who was trying to escape a cruel system and an abusive home life. And on it went, until the last, unmarked box produced 3 takes of Wade's song. In the meantime I had found a ...