Mike’s Tales From The Road #1
AUG. 25, 2009/ EDMONTON AB, CANADA
Well…
I flew in to Edmonton the day before the Telus field gig… My brother and his kids picked me up at the airport… Met the band at the Sutton Place Hotel and had the first of too many pints of Keiths that day…
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Mike’s Tales From The Road #2
AUGUST 28, 2009
INNISFAIL ALBERTA, CANADA
Well….
This whole week in Edmonton was a reminder to just how exhausting the road can be…Loads of interviews and meetings and late nights… But I knew that going into it… Read The Tale>>
Mike’s Tales From The Road #3
CCMA WEEKEND/ VANCOUVER BC/
SEPT. 9-14…EDMONTON/ SEPT. 14-19…
Well…
I flew in to Vancouver from Nashville on Wednesday September 9th. Jackson picked me up at the airport… We went to a pub and had a couple of pints with some of Jackson’s gang of ne’er do wells…
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Mike’s Tales From The Road #4
THE 8:30 NEWFOUNDLAND CROSS CANADA TOUR
OCT. 13 TO OCT. 30, 2009 (PART 1)
Well…
In late September it dawned on me that I didn’t have a vehicle for the upcoming tour which was due to kick off on October 15th in Summerside, PEI. Read The Tale>>
The Way I Remember It… Chapter 1
Prologue 1:
I was nine years old. It was a summer day in Shediac, New Brunswick. I remember driving in the car with my Mom and my brother Chris. We were on our way to my aunt Claire’s house.
It was her birthday. We were listening to the radio…
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The Way I Remember It… Chapter 2
With the exception of my guitar, we, pretty much, sold everything we owned and left Moncton on Friday, August 16th1985. We flew into Edmonton, Albertaand from there we caught the Greyhound to Bonnyville. Two hundred and forty kilometers or one hundred and fifty miles north east of Edmonton.
We pulled into town around 10:30that night.
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“A Christmas Story of Sorts… by Mike Plume”
On the afternoon of December 24th, 1991, I was on my way home to Bonnyville from a gig somewhere in Alberta, probably Barrhead. It had been a long year and I was looking forward to getting home for the Holidays. As I was passing through Edmonton I figured I’d stop and do some last minute shopping. Actually, it was more like all of my Christmas shopping.
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