Gord Downie's comments have been edited for length and clarity. It's a real challenge trying to make words rhyme and ultimately serve the song. "It's a challenge trying to make words rhyme and ultimately serve the song, to maybe push the melody a bit and allow yourself to be pushed. I happen to work with some guys that are supportive in that regard - we make music together in a cooperative environment. What it was like working with Gord Downie on his final solo recording He said he writes poetry like a spider spins webs and probably much for the same reason to support his existence. That day, I thought, 'I want to do this.' I read a quote about him talking about why he wrote poetry. "The day that happened, it gave me a strange permission. "I slapped it on my car and then I started 'reading' great things from him.
That day, I thought, 'I want to do this.' "I picked up a tape of Al Purdy reading his poems in a delete bin, and I walked up to the desk to buy it for $2 and the guy said, 'You know he died today?' And I was like, 'Wow.' The day that happened, it gave me a strange permission.
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Now, one year later, Gord's brothers take us through his final year full of passion and emotion, and share what it was like to be right by his side the entire way. Secret Path is a ten song album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, a twelve year-old boy who died. "You're constantly running back and forth from 'the meaning department,' from 'the good-sounding word department,' and checking in on each department to see if everything's OK."ĭuration 4:56 Before his passing, Gord Downie took this country on a profound journey. It becomes a challenge to write to the music. directed a Tragically Hip music video for their song 11th Fret in 2003. Ultimately, when you're trying to put words to music, it gets fairly mathematical in a hurry. Gord Downie was the lead singer of the Canadian band, The Tragically Hip. In 2001, he spoke with Shelagh Rogers about music, poetry and how the Coke Machine Glow album and accompanying book of poetry came to be.
He died at age 53 in 2017 after being diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma in 2015. He was a singer-songwriter, poet, actor, philanthropist and activist. A reissue expanded the project into a triple album and accompanying poetry audiobook entitled Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters' Cabal.ĭownie was the lead singer of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.
18, 2021.Ĭoke Machine Glow , the first solo project by the late Canadian rock musician Gord Downie, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. This archived interview from 2001 aired on Sept.
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