Been reading the book "An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller" by Peig Sayers, recently. Peig was illiterate, and only spoke and knew Irish, called Gaelic at the time. And yet, her son's transcription of her stories and translation into English really conveys her warmth, melody, and idiom/myth phrases, in a way that with almost no other book I've read I feel not just that I know Peig, but that she knows me. I hope I can leave some sort of media that carries even just a fraction of a whisper of a murmur of that personhood and connection. I hope you hear Peig thru-in your days, too.
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Calgary International Airport
Susan Raye and the Buck Owens Band, featuring Leanne Scott • CFAC Radio presents Calgary International Airport -
Trucker
The Ratskin Family Band • SINGLE July 8th 2026 -
When We Were Little
Great Uncles Of The Revolution, featuring Andrew Downing, Kevin Turcotte, Jesse Zubot, Steve Dawson • Great Uncles Of The Revolution Stand Up! -
Dogwater
Blu Beach Band • Mulligan -
Summer Rain
Leeroy Stagger • Pilgrimage -
Mister You Stole That Song (From Me)
Joan MacIsaac • Wintersong -
La prairie
Grouyan Gombo • Beaubassin -
Crossing A Canyon (Unplugged)
54-40 • La Difference: A History Unplugged -
Progress
Alan & Jan • Take Me, I’m Yours -
Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
Jim Croce • Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits -
Little Girl Blue (Live)
Janis Joplin • Farewell Song CD Playlist: The Very Best Of Janis Joplin -
Cortez
Oak Park High Stage Band 1988, featuring Gary Pollard • Oak Park High Stage Band 1988 Under The Direction Of Gary Pollard -
I Love That I'm So In Love With You
Uncle Neptune • Uncle Neptune - Self Titled 2001 -
Space Oddity
The Langley Schools Music Project • Innocence and Despair 1976-77 -
True Love Will Find You In The End
Beck • SINGLE 2017 -
Around
Big Wreck • The Rest Of The Story -
Bill Is Dead
The Fall • Extricate -
Through The Long Night
Billy Joel • It's Still Rock N Roll To Me -
Rosen Lieben Blauen Trauer
Maximilian Torsten • Namoon -
The Water Is Wide
Patricia Murray & Jim Smith, featuring Kim Vincent (guitar), Margie Carmichael-Scotto (guitar), Gordon Belsher (bass), Scott MacAulay (Highland bagpipes) • The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada Presents Ancestral Voices Across The Sea... -
The Waltze Of The Tennis Players
Fraser & Debolt (With Ian Guenther) • Fraser & Debolt (With Ian Guenther)