Of course that fell by the wayside when the trip fell through, and I had to settle for fifteen minutes on the phone with him. When it had looked like I would be travelling down to Toronto to see Rudd in concert, I contacted his Canadian publicist to see if I could set up an interview. Over the course of the three discs that followed To Let Solace, Food In The Belly, and White Moth Rudd's music gradually became both more musically and thematically complex, a period of development that culminated in his most recent release, 2008's Dark Shades Of Blue. Sitting behind a stand holding his three Yidaki (an Australian Aboriginal instrument named for the hunter who not only discovered it but whose spirit now resides within them, it's better know by the name Europeans have given it, didgeridoos) he would play either slide or regular guitar, keep the beat with a stomp box and small percussion instruments, play some harmonica, and of course sing. The Australian born multi-instrumentalist's initial albums and tours saw him performing as a one man band. Rudd released his first CD, To Let, in 2002 and has since produced four more discs and toured the world extensively. My wife summed it up best when she said, "he always seems to be able to articulate how I'm feeling about the state of the world with his music." You see, there's something about Xavier Rudd's music that I've connected to it on a personal level, in a way that I never have before to any musicians work. I guess I had hopped that when the time came, somehow it could happen because it would have meant so much to us. I've not been able to make a trip of that length since 2002, so how could I have thought now would be any different. I figured the only thing worse than not going, was not going and having the tickets laying around the house reminding me of the disappointment.Ī part of me knew all along we wouldn't be making the trip. I put off the inevitable for as long as possible, but in the end I surrendered and we gave the tickets to a young couple we know who appreciated the music as much as we would have. Unfortunately, as the day drew nearer it became obvious there was no way my body was going to be able to stand up to two and half hour trip by train that it would take to get to Toronto. As a treat to celebrate our wedding anniversary, I had purchased tickets for my wife and I to go and see one of our favourite performers when his tour stopped in Toronto, Ontario for two nights. It's not very often that my health problems interfere with my life, but this past week I had reason to rue them for the first time in a number of years.
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