Things have been sooooo busy for months now, I have not been able to
write as regularly as I'd like - over this next week or two, before
things get even more hectic, as the Europe tour approaches, I'll do
my best to let you know what's happening in Alley's recording life+.

For a start, here's an anecdote from my day.

As folks may or may not know, here in Canada, the public
broadcasters at CBC Radio had been locked out for a long stretch,
and are just now getting back to work, connecting our land via the
airwaves.

Shelagh Rogers, a veteran broadcaster and host of a very popular
program called Sounds Like Canada was back on air today for the
first time since the Summer. And, she invited Allison to join her on
this welcome-back-broadcast.

Allison had the song she was going to perform ready. But,
serendipitously, yesterday, she taught herself A Case of You on
guitar, and in the minutes prior to the radio show going live across
the country this a.m., Alley plunked a few notes of Joni's song on
her keyboard to see what it sounded like... Shelagh got excited, and
asked if that was the song to be played. Allison said, it wasn't,
but it could be...

Shelagh explained that, during the CBC lockout, when she and two of
her producers had driven across the whole of Canada in a van, they'd
repeatedly played A Case of You - cranking the volume on the car
stereo at the lines "I drew a map of Canada, oh Canada".

So, naturally, when the show mics were turned on today, this is the
song that was heard:
http://www.allisoncrowe.com/SLCACaseofYouAllisonCrowe.mp3

to be continued...

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