Sad to say, with this revamped blog just a couple of months old, I’ve just now listened to my first music from the late Paul Quarrington.
Quarrington, also an award-winning novelist, died Jan. 21 at 56 from lung cancer.
The first song I randomly picked, in video format, was
I Need My Heart which he did with his band, Pork Belly Futures. Wow, what a great song and what a great video. Total fun. Total joy. I'd call it country rock-a-billy.
And then, next, I decided to listen to one of his last songs,
Are You Ready, written with Dan Hill and Martin Worthy, in which he directly faces his terminal diagnoses. Extremely heart felt, poignant.
It’s posted at Macleans Magazine and to go there, click
here.
Also at that site you’ll find a version with Dan Hill doing back up.
And here’s the YouTube version of
I Need My HeartFor more on this Toronto musician/novelist, his website is at
www.paulquarrington.org/For an obituary that appeared on our website and in our publications, link
here