Country Music - a guilty pleasure
Amongst all the things I have discovered since I arrived in Victoria, I didn't expect to discover, or rediscover, Country Music. I grew up listening to Slim Whitman, Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins and others (Many of the Irish families I know love Country and Western Music). Following a Clergy Day last week I was reminded by the Bishop of a somewhat 'guilty pleasure' I have of enjoying Country Music, though I must admit on the whole my tastes to veer to New Country! There are two things I have discovered here - one of them is Country Music in French - a genre I should've realised existed as I have seen such wonders as French Country Music albums in French stores, but the fact of French Country as a genre somehow never quite clicked. The other discovery is that Canada has a thriving Country scene of its own. Not a great leap of imagination to realise that is the case, the 'Western Spirit' is strong in this pioneer nation. I always think of Country as '...