Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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He's been called a blues evangelist and that is a very fitting moniker. "I speak the blues like it's the truth, and it is" he was recently quoted. "I do feel like I'm a servant of the people. And I do believe that music can heal people, especially blues music, if they pay attention to the good messages in the songs we perform." He delivers those messages in the traditional sound of early electric blues. Think of the old Chess Records and Sun Records of the late 40's and early 50's. Harpdog says "Blues has a healing power. It's a beautiful celebration of our perfectly flawed lives. We help people forget about their issues for a moment and then they realize that we all have our issues, and that it's ok." Vancouver-based Harpdog Brown was born in Edmonton in 1962, an adopted child ... more...