As he takes the stage at the Grand Parade, someone needs to
crown David Myles king of the road. The long, lean man tours non-stop,
or so it seems after a read of his blog and all the tour-dates
mentioned therein.
He played the nation’s capital for Canada Day and celebrated New
Brunswick Day in Fredericton at the Lieutenant-Governor’s residence.
The LG, Herménégilde Chiasson, a writer himself,
translated Myles’s “When It Comes My Turn,” from his second album,
Things Have Changed, into French.
Myles and band made transatlantic trips to the UK twice this
summer, playing several shows with Jools Holland, former piano player
with The Squeeze and TV host of Later…with Jools Holland.
During that time, they played Shrewsbury, which, Myles wrote, is the
home of that wayfaring, seafaring (aboard the Beagle) and pioneering
evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.
Most recently, Myles made it to a show in Kejimkujik National Park
in southwestern Nova Scotia, and, last we heard, was hanging out in
Fredericton with family and listening to Roger Miller, he of “King of
the Road” fame, “non-stop.”
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.
