Radio Séan, vol. 3 – “Traditionally Influential”

The following was written (but not posted) on May 30th…..
Ever get the feeling you were sitting in someone else’s grocery cart? Lost among the isles…..in cereal looking for eggs…in the 20 or under checkout line….holding 21? That’s how I feel most of the time. Somewhere close to…but never quite there…something I always see coming but [...]

I’ve never really paid much attention to Father’s day. As a fresh father, it held no more weight for me than the so many other Hallmark holidays with which we now find ourselves besotted. But last Sunday was different. For some reason this year I had a fantastic Father’s Day and I don’t even know [...]

Just 30 minutes drive across the river from downtown Ottawa lies a musical oasis called The Black Sheep Inn. In this idylic lakeside setting, tourists, locals, and serious fans alike can lift up their feet and listen uninterrupted to the music that moves them.
What a truly beautiful thing.
Thank you Paul and everyone else who made [...]

Aside from being the best singer to ever blow out of Cape breton, my good friend Bruce Guthro has created and maintained the coolest guitar pull in the country. I’ve known Bruce for about 15 years and he’s asked me to join his circle on more than one occasion but I’ve always managed to come [...]

If I died tomorrow, I ‘d have one less X to mark on my bucket list. To come to Halifax and sing my songs in the best listening room in Canada is no small privledge and one for which I shall ever be gratetful. Very nervous at first (it took me about four songs to [...]

It is with a mixture of fear and excitement that I embark on my first domestic shows. Three sets in as many nights in Halifax and Ottawa: The Carleton, Bruce Guthro’s Songwriter’s Circle, and then the infamous Black Sheep Inn (actually across the river in Wakefield Quebec). Not sure how often I will get to [...]

As if and in case anyone was wondering what happened to me, I have been lost in the studio plotting the sequel to my solo audio assault on your unsuspecting hearts and minds. 8 new greatbigsean tracks were hastily recorded in as many days last week in GBStudio for your listening pleasure (one digs when [...]

Sitting on pristine Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman provides an entirely different perspective on the current tragedy continuously unfolding just across the bay in Louisiana.  I am down here on a working vacation but there is no escape from the desperate image of an oil covered seabird struggling to take a breath while a [...]