Recording: Stranger Still

Artist: Stranger Still

Song: Five Days in Hospital

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #72), October 4, 2022.

Stranger Still - Five Days in Hospital

Pete Johnston's project of setting Alden Nowlan's poems to music is heading towards its second album, meaning the bulk of this set was given over to new material. As with the pieces surveyed on their first album, the poems are sung by Mim Adams and Randi Helmers and situated musically by Johnston's guitar and Rob Clutton's double bass. One new wrinkle the group has adopted for live performance is to read the selections as poems before presenting them musically, which works well to get the nuances of the pathos, dark humour and occasional redemptive glimpses in the works.

You can check out some video documentation of this set of on TCB's youtube playlist:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona on Tuesday, November 1st with a night of music presented by Splendid Industries.]