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Michael Caplan - Sweet hurtin songs

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As a singer of "sweet hurtin songs" (old country, folk, blues, etc.), Michael rocked his first house in rural Saskatchewan in 2004: an audience of cowboy ranchers and modern dancers during the closing night of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie's community performance event, Grasslands (on which Michael worked as assistant director).

He performed regularly for nearly two years at the Grasshopper Bar in his home neighbour-hood of Cabbagetown, Toronto, and in 2006 recorded a CD, Steelpan Country, with Gabriel Chartrand, one of the only musicians of Aboriginal descent to master the steeldrum.

In the summer of 2008, Michael was a special guest performer for the New Dance Horizons Aria fundraiser in Regina, and sang while Bill Coleman tap-danced for the Special Event Honoring James Hillman in Pittsburgh.

Michael Caplan guitar & vocals (recorded & mixed by John Laroque):

One Kind Favor written by Blind Lemon Jefferson (4' 56")

Thank the Cowboy for a Ride written by Chris Ledoux, as performed by Tammy Wynette (4' 40")

Sweet Dreams of You written by Don Gibson, as performed by Patsy Cline (2' 10")

Songs from Steelpan Country:

Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash (3' 47")

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams Sr. (5' 35")