While Coke Machine Glow is a bit long and sprawling, it has moments of greatness where it all comes together: the album gem "Chancellor," or the marching "Vancouver Divorce," and the lighthearted polka stomp of "Yer Possessed. Thankfully, what has the potential for great pretension (songs built on poetry, guest appearances from the likes of film director Atom Egoyan) manages to escape relatively unscathed. It echoes Tom Waits or fellow Canadians the Rheostatics rather than just an unplugged Tragically Hip. Hastily produced by a small team, on a meager budget (and with little publicity. Launched in July 1971 as the Mayor's Festival '71, it initially presented about 150 mostly homegrown and free attractions on the Seattle Center campus. Based on and accompanied by a book of poetry, as a collection of songs, this album works remarkably well. Gordon Downie studied music at the Universities of York and Durham and completed his PhD in computer science at Cardiff University. Seattle is the host city for one of the world's best-loved urban music and arts festivals: Bumbershoot. Loose production across the board says that these are songs played by people in a room rather than the injection-molded nuggets of radio rock fans might expect. The instrumentation on this record owes more to vaudeville than to Woodstock. The final video, of the final track, on Away Is Mines Electric 'A' side. The bold statements of Gordon Downie's rock heritage have been abandoned in pursuit of the subtle and the subdued. Untitled - Gord Downie (Official Music Video) This is it. Fans of the Hip's classic rock will undoubtedly be left scratching their heads at this album that's more country than rock, and more jazzy than poppy. This sprawling collection of lush and often pretty numbers is the work of Gordon Downie - lead singer for the Tragically Hip.
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