Barney Bentall is an incredible songwriter and a terrific man. It was a real pleasure hanging out with him, capped with an unplugged performance of a song of his I’ve loved since my teens, “Something To Live For”. Talk about skin vibration.       

Barney and I cover a lot of stuff – his four-night stand at Hugh’s Room in Toronto as part of a Gordon Lightfoot tribute, the sabbatical he took from music to chase cows in minus 20 weather, Springsteen’s Nebraska, the very first record he ever owned, Ron MacLean’s Juno Cup mixtape, and the story behind his cover of the Hip’s “Bobcaygeon” as a tribute to Gord. Don’t miss this.     

Bentall’s playlist:

Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue

Gordon Lightfoot – Shadows

Bruce Springsteen – The Rising

Tom Petty – Free Falling

The Band – King Harvest Has Surely Come

KD Lang – Love Is Everything

The Tragically Hip – Bobcaygeon

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