The Music Issue (#87, Spring 2013)

Contents:

MUSIC FEATURES

• Introduction by Dan Wells
• Liner Notes by Mark Kingwell
• I’m Trying to Explain Something that Can’t Be Explained:
  On Bob Dylan and Big-Ass Truth
  by Lewis MacLeod
• Past Perfect by Lorna Jackson
• Willie P. Bennett by Ray Robertson
• A New Tradition: On the Afterlife of Jazz by Paul Wells
• Singing Songs for Somebody’s Sake:
  Who Is That Al Tuck?
  by Marion MacLeod
• A John Fahey Salute by Norm Sibum
• The Minor Fall, the Major Lift
  by Robert J. Wiersema

THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

• Brian Busby: Tan Ming by Lan Stormont

POETRY

• Four Poems by Robert Melançon

FEATURE

• School Is No Place for a Reader
  by Jennifer A. Franssen

THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels

• Paul Quarrington’s Whale Music
  by Michael Deforge

FICTION

• Johnny Cash in the Viper Room
  by Mark Anthony Jarman

USED AND RARE

• Secrets of the Book Trade Number 4:
  On Flashing, or, Things Found in Books
  by David Mason

CNQ TIMELINE

• 1968 by Brian Busby

INTERVIEW

• Interview with Michael Schmidt by Evan Jones

REVIEWS

• Bruce Whiteman on Sandra Djwa’s Journey With No Maps
• Emily Donaldson on Stephen Marche’s Love and the Mess We’re In
• Adrian Michael Kelly on Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl
• Mark Sampson on Alice Munro’s Dear Life
• Devon Code on Ian Colford’s The Crimes of Hector Tomás
• Mike Barnes on E. Blagrave’s Tilt
• Sean Rogers on Bart Beaty’s Comics versus Art
• Michael Basilières on Rawi Hage’s Carnival
• Patricia Robertson on Luanne Armstrong’s The Light Through the Trees
• Ross McKie on Jan Zwicky’s The Book of Frog
• Shane Neilson on Jim Johnstone’s Sunday, the locusts

CNQ COLLECTION

• Al Tuck Flexi-Disc by Dan Wells