Music Review // ReeVay "New Old Songs"

While I don't claim to know the most about Canada, I've alwaye enjoyed the idea of thinking of it, largely, like Montana.  Just the idea of having land for the sake of land and not having to turn it all into buildings, though I'm sure Canada has its real cities as well.  Through "New Old Songs", ReeVay teaches me more about Canada than I already knew, within the first two songs at least as the third is about "The Fall of Troy".

As ReeVay guides us through these songs, the first has the sound of a banjo with the harmonica ultimately joining in as well.  At one point there is an audible "yeehaw!" and as close as this might be to country I think of it more as folk as well.  This makes me really want to refer to this as Americana but given that the song is about Canada I think it's more in a North American way than a United States of America way.  That acoustic twang will continue on the second and the harmonica will find its way back on the third as well.

Lyrically these songs feel like they're teaching you about history and geography.  "The Calgary Song" teaches me things I didn't know about Calgary- though all I really know about Calgary comes from Bret "The Hitman" Hart.  The lyrics say that "In the middle of January it's still ten degrees", showing that Canada really is cold though I feel like we could be as cold here in New England.  Either way. it's nice to learn a bit about Canada and know that "Nova Scotia Rose" is also about "the color of the sky".

"The Fall of Troy" is about that history event which was not in Canada and was not too recent either.  The song has this long, winding distorted guitar riff in it to distinguish itself from the previous two songs about Canada.  Ultimately though, all three of these songs are filled with those delicate acoustics but they don't feel so much as fragile as they do as inviting, friendly in the way that would make you want to sit down and hear what ReeVay is singing about.