“I’d known for awhile I’d wanted to make a change,” says Christina Martin. “I felt stuck. I guess I was just bored.” With four records of sharp, heartfelt folk behind her, Martin is aiming for a different vibe on It’ll Be Alright—literally, a vibe, a keys-and-licks classic rock groove permeating the 10 tracks produced at […]
Christina Martin
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Christina Martin’s happiness
“I just have to find a spot,” Christina Martin says while walking onto a beach in Pugwash, NS, before lunch on a Sunday morning. The singer-songwriter just arrived home from a whirlwind, week-long trip to Montreal and wanted to do this phone interview via her cell on the beach. With seagulls calling distantly in the […]
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Christina Martin Can Too
After nearly a decade, Christina Martin is ready to break. Her third album, I Can Too, is set for release for September 7, and Martin is preparing for a national tour with Cuff the Duke on some dates (lap steel player Dale Murray co-produced I Can Too with Martin and is also Martin’s fiancee. Aww.) The album features Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor and Cuff frontman Wayne Petti. She’ll be playing the Seahorse on Friday, September 10 and the title song from the album is available for download if you sign up for Martin’s mailing list at www.christinamartin.net.
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Kev Corbett gives a sneak peek at his new album
Don’t drop it! Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan
