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LONESONE VALLEY (Public Domain)
This was recorded in April 2020, near the beginning of the first lock-down of the Covid-19 Pandemic. I live in the smallest of the numerous municipalities that share Montreal Island. At the time I recorded this, this little town had the lowest infection rate and death rate of all the communities on the Island, which was itself the epicentre of the pandemic in Canada. However, the worst hit community on this island, in terms of rate of infection and death rate, was the somewhat bigger town that’s directly across the street from my house. That's where the stores are that I go to for all my shopping. I admit, I found it somewhat scary to go out and do the weekly shopping that day. I thought about how 3000 years ago, King David of Israel had written the immortal words: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" - but he had God's rod and staff to comfort him. I just had a lousy pair of thin blue protective gloves, and a stupid mask made from part of a T-shirt. When I parked my car upon arriving home with my groceries, the random shuffling music player in my car was beginning a track of Pete Seeger teaching an audience how to sing the song "Lonesome Valley", which has always seemed to me to be about the same valley that David was writing about in psalm 23. But I didn't sit in the car to sing the song along with Pete to cheer myself up. I went into the house and made this recording instead.

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from Times Ain't Nuthin' Like They Used To Be, released January 15, 2021

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Marc Nerenberg Montreal, Québec

Marc Nerenberg is a veteran Montreal folksinger who plays old time banjo styles and blues harmonica. He has a narrative- centric repertoire, recounting stories in song and wrapping stories around songs. You may “be drawn in by a combination of Marc’s mastery of traditional banjo styles, his idiosyncratic singing, and [his] richly detailed ballads.” (Mike Regenstreif – Folk Roots/Folk Branches 2019) ... more

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