The science of rock and roll

 Photo: Jill Grant A little more than 20 years ago in the Toronto live music club scene, I met a couple of guys, Scott Cryer and Rob Macdonald at a show on Queen Street West where we shared the stage with the band I was playing in at the time. They were

I taught myself to play so I could be where people danced — Jim Cuddy’s Countrywide Soul

 My favourite line from all the songs I know is, ‘I taught myself to play so I could be where people danced’. It’s from the song Rena, dedicated to Jim Cuddy’s wife, the actress Rena Polley, and is from Blue Rodeo’s 2005 album Are You Ready. ‘I look in through