Desert Island Songs – The Tragically Hip "Nautical Disaster"

   I've been listening to The Hip off and on since probably day one, so with a back catalog like theirs you would think picking a Tragically Hip "Desert Island Song" would be a task, or at the least I'd choose one of the most obvious choice's like "Blow at High Dough" or "New Orleans Is Sinking"…but one song of theirs has always stuck in my head and I've never been able to shake it, I'll search it out like a boat lost on a ocean, it's "Nautical Disaster". It's taken from their 1994 album Day for Night, which in my opinion is their strongest and best record, Gord's lyrics went right off the chart for this one, he threw away the playbook and followed his soul.

    Below is the video for "Nautical Disaster" by The Tragically Hip, but I have also included a new cover version by Justin Rutledge filmed by Southern Souls, Justin by the way has a new album out called Valleyheart.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM


The Tragically Hip "Nautical Disaster"



Justin Rutledge covers the Tragically Hip classic "Nautical Disaster" for Southern Souls

Whitehorse covers Blue Rodeo's "Dark Angel"

     Have you ever fallen in love with a song after just one listen? It just happened to me.

    As the husband and wife duo Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland who are better known as Whitehorse sang the lines of "Dark Angel" visions of Gram and Emmylou drifted through my mind, their voices float on plains that only we could dream of. 

   Video by Mitch Fillion of Southern Souls, recorded by The Rheostatics Tim Vesely at the Woodshed…..that's Blue Rodeo's studio!

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Aaron Mangoff - Ash Beneath The Sill

     New song from Aaron Mangoff called "Ash Beneath The Sill", video filmed by Southern Souls.

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Aaron Mangoff - My Friend - Filmed by Southern Souls

    I give you Singer/Songwriter Aaron Mangoff with "My Friend" in a video captured by musical archivists Southern Souls. 

If you like what you hear then buy some Mangoff HERE via iTunes and Sleeper Records.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM