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  • The Way I Remember It
    • Chapter One
    • Chapter Two
    • Chapter Three
    • Chapter Four
    • Chapter Five
    • Chapter Six
    • Chapter Seven
    • Gord Downie
    • So Long Stompin’ Tom
    • “Lucy and the Yellow Bird at Bongo”
    • One Last Round Before The Snow…
    • Havelock, New Brunswick – 1978
    • The C.I. West In Edmonton in August of 1988
    • “If God Gives You Melons…”
    • The 8:30 NFLD Cross Canada Tour 2009 (Part 1)
    • A Case Study In Nerves
    • “9/11”
    • “The Four Hosers of The Apocalypse”
    • The 8:30 NFLD Cross Canada Tour 2009 (Part 2)
    • A Christmas Story Of Sorts…
    • A Courier’s Blues (Another Christmas Story Of Sorts…)
    • By Request… “Kept on Dancing”
    • By Request… “DiMaggio”
    • The Girl From Saskatoon (Yet Another Christmas Story Of Sorts…)
    • You Ain’t Living (If You Don’t Die Trying)
    • Looking For You (A Travelogue Of Sorts…)
  • Documentaries
    • “Steel Belted Radio” Documentary
    • “The Fuss and Commotion” Documentary
    • “Live @ the Exit / In” – Nashville Tennessee – 02/19/2000
  • Bio
    • “Lonesome Stretch of Highway” By Jason Schneider
    • “Born By The Radio” by Ken Kelley
    • “Red And White Blues” by Ken Kelley
    • “8:30 Newfoundland” by Kevin Young
    • Thumbnail Sketch of an Autobiography
  • Guitars
    • Takamine EN 20 “Old # 1″
    • Guild JF 30 “Old # 2”
    • Epiphone Casino VC
    • The Gibson Tennessean “Chet”
    • Gibson Dove “The Dove”
  • Paintings
  • Pictures
  • Lyrics
    • A
      • A Buck and a Half’s Profit
      • A Million Miles Away 
      • A Song For Alberta
      • A Travelogue Of Sorts (Looking For You)
      • Ain’t That The Truth 
      • Alcohol
      • Angels In The Snow
      • Anna Fall
      • Another Train Song
    • B
      • Back Home For Christmas
      • The Back Of My Hand 
      • Back On My Feet 
      • The Best Job I Ever Had
      • Better Than You Found It
      • Big American Headliner
      • Birmingham, 3AM
      • Bootleg
      • Born So Long Ago 
    • C
      • Climbing The Walls
      • Coming Home Again (Hey Hey What D’ya Say)
      • Crazy After All 
    • D
      • Daisy’s Dream 
      • Dancing On The Wind
      • Dance Ruby, Dance
      • Dandelions (We Are One)
      • DiMaggio 
      • Doing What Comes Naturally
      • Dreamer 
      • Drop ‘er In Low
    • E
      • Eggshells 
      • Eldorado and the 12:15 
      • Everyday Is Another Day
      • Everyday Is Another Day (Part Two)
      • Everything’s Alright 
      • Everything But The Blame
      • Eyes Like Roadmaps 
    • F
      • Fall Down Day
      • Five Crow Silver
      • Fly In The Ointment 
      • For Every Boy And Girl
      • Free
    • G
      • Gather Round The Christmas Tree
      • Girl In Green
      • Give A Little To Get A Little Back
      • Good As Gone Blues
      • Good Intentions 
      • Goodbye Summer
      • The Graveyard Shift 
    • H
      • Half Full Is The Cup
      • Has Anyone Seen Benny? 
      • Hey Hey What D’ya Say (Coming Home Again)
    • I
      • I Just Don’t Get It
      • I Won’t Stand In Your Way 
      • If Fins Were Wings
      • If I Had My Way
      • If There Ever Was A Fool
      • I’m Your Huckleberry
      • In God’s Hands Now
      • Inbreeder’s Lament
      • It’s A Long Long Way
      • It’s Christmas Time
      • It’s Over 
    • J
      • Jerks 
      • Jimmy Funk 
      • Jubilee
      • Junior
    • K
      • Keeping Time With The Telephone Poles
      • Kept On Dancing 
    • L
      • Life Is Funny
      • Like A Bullet From A Gun
      • Live It Up Until They Lower Me Down
      • Lock It Up
      • Lonesome And Blue 
      • Long Long Line Of Fools
      • Looking For You (A Travelogue Of Sorts…) 
    • M
      • Make It Up As We Go
      • Mama’s Rolling Stone
      • Maybe L.A.
      • Me and Ern
      • Merry Xmas To My Ex Miss
      • Mine All Mine
      • Monroe’s Mandolin
      • More Than A Game
      • Motorbike
      • Moving On 
      • My Old Friend
    • N
      • No Time For Long Goodbyes
      • Nothing But A Broken Heart
    • O
      • Oblivion
      • Ohio 
      • One Of Those Days
      • On Remembrance Day
      • On The Night I Hit The Wall
    • P
      • Perfume and Gasoline
      • Promise Me You’ll Never Tell
    • Q
    • R
      • Radiate
      • Rattle The Cage
      • The Rebound 
      • Red And White Blues
      • Remember To Forget
      • Rich Man
      • Ride 
      • Rust 
    • S
      • Save Me From Myself 
      • Sensitive Guy 
      • She’s Still Everything To Me
      • Silhouette
      • Silver Lining
      • Simplify
      • So Long Stompin’ Tom
      • Something Or Someone To Hold 
      • Something To Say
      • Somewhere Under The Rainbow
      • Sound Check Song 
      • Stay Where Yer To
      • Steel Belted Radio
      • Straight Back Home
      • “Sugar Maple Charcoal”
      • Summers Around Here (Don’t Last Forever)
      • Sweet Low Rain 
    • T
      • Table For One
      • Take Me With You
      • Tennessee 
      • That’s What I’m Talking About
      • The Sweet Passing Of Time
      • There’s A Road
      • There’s Nothing I Don’t Love About You
      • This Is Our Home (8:30 Newfoundland) 
      • Through Another Town
      • Thunder Bay
      • Time For A Change
      • Trying To Find My Way Back Home
    • U
      • The Usual 
    • V
      • Voice Like A Song
    • W
      • Walkin’ By 
      • Walking Home 
      • Wanderin’ Blues 
      • Wash Away
      • Waste A Kiss On Me
      • Way Down Yonder Is A Little Piece Of Land
      • (We Are One) Dandelions
      • We Both Knew
      • We Chase The Sun 
      • Weeds
      • We’re Still Here 
      • Western Wind
      • When The Sun Goes Down
      • Wind At My Back
      • When In Rome 
      • Wondering Why I’m Here 
      • World Coming Down (Song For Dorie)
    • X
    • Y
      • Yer The Only One 
      • Younger Than We Are Today
      • You Ain’t Livin’ (If You Don’t Die Tryin’)
      • You Don’t Believe 
    • Z
  • MERCH
  • BOOKINGS/MEDIA

“A Christmas Story Of Sorts…”

On the afternoon of December 24th, 1991, I was making 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.…

By sarcastech | December 25, 2019 | News, Stories | No Comments |
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MPB @ the Peanut Bar in Grand Forks – 03.09.2000

Written by Dan Hendrickson aka Henry Rifle Everyone wants to be there on one of those special nights. More to the point, they want to be able to say they were THERE on one of those nights; one of those…

By sarcastech | March 28, 2017 | Live Gigs |
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Last Thoughts On The Song Called “So Long Stompin’ Tom” (Friday, March 15, 2013)

Last Wednesday evening, my brother Chris, sent me a text message telling me that Stompin’ Tom had passed away at the age of 77. The first thing I thought was “Well that’s the end of era…” But I didn’t realize…

By sarcastech | March 8, 2017 | Stories |
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Looking For You (A Travelogue Of Sorts…)

In June of 2004, Jenny and I were awaiting the impending arrival of Ruby.  For some reason, I had booked a last minute show in the Distillery District in Toronto. It was so last minute in fact, that Jenny and…

By sarcastech | September 22, 2016 | Stories | 6 Comments |
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You Ain’t Living (If You Don’t Die Trying)

(The Three Stages Of Songwriting… )  This is a study of how the germ of an idea for a song can happen years before the actual writing of it. I wrote this song in 2007 but, the seeds for it were…

By sarcastech | September 16, 2016 | Stories | No Comments |
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The 2016 Summer Run

By sarcastech | June 14, 2016 | News | No Comments |
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A Song For Alberta

Written by Mike Plume on May 6th, 2016. Recorded on May 8th, 2016. Available for streaming and download at my BandCamp page. https://mikeplume.bandcamp.com/track/… NAME YOUR PRICE. Every penny earned goes to helping Fort McMurray rebuild.

By sarcastech | May 12, 2016 | Songs | No Comments |
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The Way I Remember It…Chapter Five

Chapter 5 One day, during lunch, about a week after our second gig, Keith told me that he was leaving the band. “Leaving the band? Wha’ d’ya mean yer leaving the band? We’re just getting started!” “Yeah, I know man,…

By sarcastech | June 1, 2015 | Stories | No Comments |
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upcoming shows

11/07/2024 – Toronto ON – Bluebird Bar (8 PM)
11/09/2024 – Toronto ON – Cameron House (6 PM)

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