The Perlich Post

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The Return of Drumheller! @ The Tranzac Club, Wednesday

Nick Fraser reconnects with Drumheller pals Brodie West, Doug Tielli, Rob Clutton & Eric Chenaux at the Tranzac tonight at 7 pm.

Remembering composer/arranger Gil Evans on his birthday

Remembering Toronto-born composer/arranger Gil Evans on his birthday with a documentary and a few recordings.

90s Nostalgia: A remastered version of Eleventh Dream Day's Lived To Tell?

Seems like Eleventh Dream Day's 1991 album Lived To Tell is way overdue for a properly remastered vinyl reissue.

Here's the scoop...

The resurrection of Lived To Tell (originally titled Trips We Lived To Tell, dumbed down at the suggestion of Atlantic Records) truly beggars belief (in that your belief goes broke trying to believe the story). For many years, the band groused about the mastering of the original Atlantic release - not the recording, not the mix - the mastering. Page even got involved at one point reaching out to former EDD/Atlantic publicist Tim Sommer as to the possible whereabouts of the original tapes. A response was not forthcoming. Then one day, random fellow Fred G notifies us that he recently purchased the contents of a storage locker in California that had belonged to the late recording engineer Paul McKenna. Inside, he informed us, were a bunch of DATs from the Lived To Tell sessions. An insane bolt from the blue? Is your belief beggared?

Fast forward to 2026, and the good people of Comedy Minus One Records (check out their entire Eleventh Dream Day product line right here) have liberated the original majesty of one of the Dream Day's very best records. Listen here to the ripened guitar interplay, the luxurious low end, the hectoring of a menacing Rizzo impossibly sweetened by Bean accompaniment. And of course the whole pulverizing attack. Am I chalking it up to the remastering? Honestly Page is not 100% clear what "remastering" means, and is easily swayed by the power of suggestion. Maybe CMO or Rick can offer the sonic context. Short of that, listen here...

The Necessary Evils vs. The Seeds

James Arthur's Necessary Evils add a greasy-grimey 90s wallop to The Seeds gem "The Gypsy Plays The Drums"

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Happy Birthday Ronnie Foster!

Celebrating the birthday of Buffalo-born Hammond hero Ronnie Foster with "Mystic Brew" and more. Cheers Ronnie!

Rodney Crowell's "lost" album Then Again set for release in June

Rodney felt the time is right for the songs he cut in 2005 with Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris to be released as Then Again.

Here's the scoop on Then Again...

“I guess you could call it a lost album,” says Rodney Crowell. “I stumbled upon it in my vault at home. I’d forgotten about it completely.” He’s referring to Then Again, which he recorded and shelved two decades ago before moving off into new directions. Since then, the album has been biding its time, waiting for the moment when its songs would hit hardest. And they hit incredibly hard now, largely because age and experience have granted Crowell a richer perspective. “I’m glad I put it on the shelf, because now is the time for it. It may not be the time for it for the rest of the world, but it’s time for it for me. That’s why I wanted to call it Then Again. I thought that was a clever way of saying that what was happening then is happening now.

Back in 2006, Crowell was in high cotton. He was coming off a trilogy of albums—The Houston Kid in 2001, Fate’s Right Hand in 2003, The Outsider in 2005—that re-established him as a fearless voice in Americana and attracted new generations of fans drawn to his compassionate storytelling, his detail-laden songwriting, and his eloquent outrage over political injustices. In 2005 he went into Treasure Isle Studios in Nashville to record what would become Then Again. But when he heard the masters, something didn’t feel quite right. The band was smokin’ hot and the songs sounded good, but the album just didn’t move him and he struggled to figure out exactly what was wrong or what was missing. Twenty years later, when he found the album in his vaults, he couldn’t remember exactly what tripped him up. He decided it was finally time, if only because “I heard a record I wasn’t sick of. I was no longer sick of myself. That’s what 20 years will do for you.”

Once lost and now found, Then Again is something the Rodney Crowell of the 2000s could never have predicted but something the Rodney Crowell of the 2020s recognizes instinctively: a work of nuance, insight, and sensitivity that considers death but celebrates life. “I’m trying to understand that this spirit of mine is going to leave this body and go off somewhere else. I’ve got a pretty good idea that it’s going to be someplace good, but I still need to perfect some part of my spiritual journey here before I check out. I can see that in these songs now.”

Rodney Crowell's Then Again is out 6/26 via New West Records. Check the tracklisting followed by "Are You One Of Us" featuring the voice of Guy Clark below. You can pre-order copies on vinyl (or CD) right here.