Saturday’s mainstage lineup is as follows: Kid-wonder Kat McLevey, local staples The Panting Brothers, Fretboard Journey (featuring four of the finest guitarists on the island, including Duane Andrews), ECMA-nominated country queens The Secrets, folk hero David Francey, and the humanitarian of more than 30 albums, Bruce Cockburn.
Headliner Bruce Cockburn’s resume includes 13 Juno Awards, an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and several international awards. In 1982, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 2002.
This pair of tickets is worth $80, so we’re going to make you work for them. Bruce is a legend, and our Radio Station honours legendary music by playing a classic every 12th song. We could use some suggestions on classic songs you hope, or suggest we have in rotation. To enter to win this pair of tickets, simply comment below with the name of a classic song you love. Bruce Cockburn songs are clearly welcomed.
Maggie’s Kitchen Wall – Bruce Cockburn
Bob Seger – Night Moves
Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
It’s Rainin Men!!
Hey Jude- The Beatles!
I love the rainy nights by Eddie rabbit
“Just what I needed” by THE CARS
Hotel California- Eagles is a classic song!
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Don’t Stop Me Now! – Queen
Don’t Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult
Bruce Cockburn – Up on the hillside!
CCR- Have you ever seen the rain
Steely Dan- Josie
Neil Young- Needle & the damage done
Heart- Crazy on you/ barracuda
Ozzy osbourne- crazy train
Alannah Myles- black velvet
Don McLain- American pie/ Vincent
Tracey Chapman- fast car
Joan Osborne- one of us
Everything but the girl- missing
Fastball- the way
Stevie Nicks- edge of seventeen
Rob Zombie- dragula
The Carpenters- we’ve only just begun, close to you, rainy days & Mondays
David Bowie- space oddity
Elton John- This train don’t stop there anymore
Guns n’ Roses- sweet child of mine, welcome to the jungle, November rain
Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer
George Michael- Careless Whisper
Billy Holiday- strange fruit
Peter Paul & Mary- puff the magic dragon
Stacey Q- Two of Hearts
Aerosmith- Dream on
The Rolling Stones- sympathy for the devil
Eric Clapton- tears on heaven
Steppenwolf- born to be wild
America- Sister Golden Hair
Jace Everett- Bad Things
ELO- evil woman
Janis Joplin- piece of my heart
Ah Ha- take on me
Zit Remedy- everybody wants something ( degrassi )
Counting crows- mr jones
Our lady peace- 4am, clumsy, somewhere out there
The fugees- killing me softly
Blue rodeo- try, 5 days in May, lost together, hasn’t hit me yet
Mamas and the papas- Monday Monday, California dreamin’
Merrill brainbridge- mouth
Bonnie Tyler- I need a hero/ total eclipse of the heart
Incubus- drive
Joan Jett- I love rock and roll
Deep purple- smoke on the water
Animals- house of the rising sun
Meredith brooks- BITCH
Tom Petty- Free Fallin’/ Mary Jane
Pink Floyd- another brick in the wall
Lynyrd skynyrd- free bird
Rocky Horror Picutre Show- time warp
Sly and the family stone- everyday people
Okay I’ll stop. I could keep going all night. But I’ll stop here.
“The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainright III. If youchavent heard it already…listen!! Classic Canadian folk anthem!
oh, it’s the best!
Jackson Browne’s The Load Out/Stay
Looooooooove the full version of this gem!!
Bruce’s “Peggy’s Kitchen Wall” and “Call it Democracy” and “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” and …
Because I LOVE Bruce Cockburn – one of my all time fav songs, “Tokyo”
Lovers In A Dangerous Time!
Bruce Cockburn’s “January In The Halifax Airport Lounge” is by far his best!! Would love to see it live 😉
Fire and rain – James taylor
Needles and PIns ( The Searchers or the Ramones, both are good)
I dare you to put Aerosmith’s “Cryin.” in the mix. C’mon it’s a TOTAL JAM!!!!
“Last Dance with Mary Jane” by Tom Petty.
“Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys
“Brown-eyed girl” by Van Morrison. You really cannot go wrong with that one.
But if you want something more esoteric, how about the Specials version of Pressure Drop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAt_qyWN8E
Good luck choosing–you’ve got a ton of great suggestions in the works!
Hey! We love Overcast RadiO! We stream it all day at work, so here’s our group entry, a song each:
“Vaseline” by Stone Temple Pilots
“Lola” by THe Kinks
“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen
1.) “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M.
2.) “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick
3.) “Alison” by Elvis Costello
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
“Slow Ride” (not sure who sings it, sorry!)
If you mean, like, guilty pleasures we all secretly want to hear: “Karma Chameleon”
“Alive” by Pearl Jam, “Daugther”
Human League’s “Don’t Yo uWant Me Baby”
Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen”
Better man by pearl jam!
Rod Stewart’s “First Cut is the Deepest.”
Love Will Tear Us Apart, or, Psycho Killer
Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love”
Lynard Skynard’s Sweet Home Alabama
Ram Jam, ‘Black Betty’
Luka by Suzanne Vega
The Islander sung by the Navigators. I first heard it 7 years ago at The Sundance while visiting “home”. Right there, on that dance floor I decided, after 28 years living away,I was moving back. I’ve been home 6 years now and it’s the best decision I ever made! Weather and all!?
Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith)
More than a Feeling (Boston)
Rock and Roll All Night (Kiss)
The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
Whats Up (4 Non Blondes)
“The River” or “Youngstown” by The Boss (Bruce Springsteen)
“Wild Horses” by The Rolling Stones. Or “Paint it Black.”
Bowie’s “Five Years”
Led Zepplin’s Sairway to Heaven
“One” by U2;
“Thunderstruck” by AC/DC
“No Woman, No Cry” by Bob Marley
The police’s “Roxanne”
Ring of Fire by Cash
Jane – Barenaked Ladies
Buckets of Rain – Bob Dylan
For fun, I will Combine Classics and Guily Pleasures, and Throw In “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston. As For Non-Guilty Classics, Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold,” of Course!
THe Bee Gee’s “Stayin’ Alive” al lthe funking way!
HO– USE OF THE RISING SUN.
Either “BIllie Jean” by MJ, or “Creep by Radiohead!
“Hey Jude” by The Beatles!
“Under the Bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
“The Rooster” by Alice in Chains
“Heart-shaped Box” by Nirvana
The End, by THe Doors
Keep it local! “The Anthem” by Fur Packed Action …
“Rave On” by Buddy Holly!