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Driveway: Travelling Light - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Travelling Light Artist: Driveway Label: Curve Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 663431000034 Genre: Country Release Date: 2008 04 29 Number of Discs: 1 Driveway is a new group from Toronto made up of ex MAdE frontman Jason Taylor, ex MAdE bass player Chris Sytnyk, drummer Robin Mason (Superhalo, Statistics), and Corey Matheson (Haggis) on banjo, pedal steel and guitar. These seasoned musicians have combined their influences that include
Title: Travelling LightArtist: Driveway
Label: Curve Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 663431000034
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Number of Discs: 1
Driveway is a new group from Toronto made up of ex-MAdE frontman Jason Taylor, ex-MAdE bass player Chris Sytnyk, drummer Robin Mason (Superhalo, Statistics), and Corey Matheson (Haggis) on banjo, pedal steel and guitar. These seasoned musicians have combined their influences that include Whiskeytown, The Jayhawks, Lucinda Williams, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Pixies, and Sonic Youth to form this â€-rock band’. “Some people are trying to call us alt-country, but that’s â€-cause they are looking for an easy description. They hear a pedal steel and automatically assume â€-country’. Alt-country is a buzz word right now and the problem with buzz words is: one, they are hard to shake and two, they fall out of fashion. We’re just a rock band.' says singer/songwriter, Jason Taylor of Driveway’s sound. Driveway’s self-titled debut was recorded independently and released by Curve Music. “We wanted to with small labels because we want to start out organically, ' says Taylor, “I’d like the band to find and define itself.' On their debut CD Taylor is the main songwriter; however the band is free to add whatever they feel. “I’ll write a song and hash it out a little bit at home, just to get the overall structure of the song, then I bring it in and everyone puts their own thing on it, ' says Taylor, “let the song after it has been â€-sort-of-written’ end up Drivewayified. The guys add all the magic' Driveway was lucky enough to get U.S. producer Keith Cleversley (The Flaming Lips, Urge Overkill and Spiritualized) to agree to produce some of the songs on the album. Taylor and Sytnyk established their relationship with Cleversley on the last MAdE album. Cleversley produced MAdE’s Television Heart album. “Keith has almost no â€-amazing’ gear, but he can pull off amazing recordings in spite of this, ' explains Taylor, “kind of like the guy who can whittle Michelangelo’s â€-David’ out of a tree stump using only a jack-knife.' The rest of the album was produced and mixed by Toronto’s Lurch. Mason said “the whole recording experience of the making of our record will stay with me for a long time, it was amazing.' The guys in Driveway all have many years of recording and touring experience. Universal Music Canada and MCA in the U.S. released MAdE’s first album, Bedazzler and Universal Canada distributed their second, Television Heart. The group broke up after the Universal/Polygram merger took place in 1999 after the albums received critical raves, but failed to sell well. Taylor said, “After that I just wanted to get back to basics, back to my roots and just make music. Driveway was formed in 2002. “I was writing for a couple of years, I remembered Robin from the old days and Chris was the bass player for MAdE, we put this project together and it was just the three of us for a while.' The group put an ad in the back of a local magazine looking for a guitar player. “We only got one call and that was Corey Matheson, ' laughs Taylor. “I remember talking to him on the phone and he said â€-I’m from Nova Scotia, I play pedal steel, lap steel, piano, guitar…’ and I said â€-holy S@#t dude, I’ll be over there in like five minutes.' “We have all been in many bands before, some of us have even had a modest amount of success, but no matter what, we are in it for life, and I think to some degree this can be heard in the music, ' Taylor said, “There’s something real about the music, there’s something magical when we are on stage together. I think the magic comes from the fact that music â€-is’ us, not just â€-in’ us. We are in it for the simple reason that we have no choice.'.
Tracks:
1.1 Looks and Money
1.2 Peace Love
1.3 Sweet Lorraine
1.4 Virginia
1.5 Since You've Been Gone
1.6 Hollywood
1.7 Wasted Time
1.8 Collapsing
1.9 California
1.10 Baby's Revolution
1.11 Higher Ground
1.12 I Feel Alright
1.13 Fades to Black
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★★★★★ 5
This was a favorite fourth grade class book club book during a study of Native Americans.
Format: Paperback
This year my fourth grade class read the book Children of the Longhouse as a book club book. They were divided into groups of 4 and 5, and each day they would prepare a section of the book to read, and discuss it. Then the leader that day of each group shared what they thought. I don't want to spoil the story, but we were examining the relationships that the characters and the community in the book had to nature, and my students loved that. They found it interesting to learn about the beliefs, and that the challenges people had to face and overcome. They loved the climax and the ending too. Characters that they had felt were "bad guys" led to discussions of what options people in another culture might have which would necessitate them doing things that seem bad to us, like disobeying adult advice. I love the way this book fleshes out a pre European existence in the Northeast that helps us picture what life might have been like in an Iroquois village. We love the role that LaCross plays. My students use the Iroquois word for it. I pointed out the glossary at the back with pronunciations for Mohawk words, and my students loved using them and would even discuss how to correctly pronounce them. The book introduced my students to many ideas that they had never been exposed to, and they cared about the characters a lot. They also loved discussing the book more in an in depth way, and then hearing what other groups had had to say. I was interesting how similar the things that each group shared were. We can see that we need to shift our attitudes and be more connected to the natural world all around us.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2019
★★★★★ 5
museum quality
Format: Paperback
This is a kid's book, which is well illustrated, and useful. I have worked as a storyteller in schools. Kids of all backgrounds love native stories! All of Joseph Bruchac's books are high quality, museum pieces, just really good, the apotheosis [ideal] of what a storybook could be like.
gives a very good description of the native lifeways around stories, and
gives another view of native storytelling.
is another book that gives you native context, by an author who also has native storybooks in print, including
. Entering into native lifeways is not necessarily judgeable by white man culture, as
shows. One thing one notices in native cultures is that they ask new questions, something like one sees in
. I find native metaphysics to be similar to Quantum Mechanics. While not a native book,
gives some ideas on how life would work, from that perspective.
has stories about tricksters, which are not dissimilar to native stories. teachingdrum.org used to have a list of books of native stories, which is the most comprehensive I've seen. That is a nonprofit, and I have no connection with them, this cites the info resource only. All storytelling is fascinating.
is one example of European stories about animals, which are not totally dissimilar. Stories are fascinating. If you want to entrance, train, entertain, educate, and improve children, nothing is faster or easier than storytelling.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2012
★★★★★ 4
Great gift for a new teacher
Format: Paperback
Bought this book for a new teacher building up her book collection for her new classroom. It was a hit!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Wonderful book for many reasons
Format: Paperback
I recommend this book for its story, cultural accuracy, and high interest action. First it is an exciting story of how conflicts arise and can be resolved with an exciting lacrosse game at the end. How cool is that? But the cultural and historical details make this a fascinating read for all ages. If you want to know about the lives of Native Americans in the New York area, written by a Native American, and put into an historically accurate story, this is a great read. I would recommend this as a high interest type of reader for middle school readers, one that would challenge them as well. The story could be about conflicts today, but the action is naturally more intense. If you are looking for an accurate portrait of Native American life, Bruchac is a wonderful author for you to choose. It is hard to find good books about northeastern Native Americans.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Engaging and educational
Format: Paperback
We really enjoyed this book as a family. My children were enthralled with characters and depiction of life in a Longhouse village. We supplemented this book with others about the Iroquois Nation and East Coast Native Americans for our homeschooling unit. It was a hit.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2023