Run With Me: An Interview with Bry Webb & Show # 1007

“Thunder Bay” is the first single released by Canadian singer/songwriter Bry Webb from his forthcoming album Run With Me. Inspired by a desire to sing and play music again after not releasing music for quite a few years, the songs that make up Run With Me are made up with inspiration to play again and the connections/contributions from different musicians over Webb’s career. Also known for being the lead vocalist in Constantines, Webb’s forthcoming album is his third full-length release and his first new album since 2014’s Free Will (there was also a live album, Live at Massey Hall in 2015).

The lead off single “Thunder Bay” dates back to a recording made with a previous band that Webb was in called The Harbour Coats. This was a band Webb formed while living in Montreal, they recorded one album before disbanding when Webb moved to Guelph to start a family. For this track, Webb redid the vocals. It arrives with swirling guitars, kick drum, looming noise, feedback, hard to forget vocal melodies and absorbing, contemplative lyrics. Another song recently became available online from Run With Me, a song titled “Modern Mind.” A song steeped in elements of psychedelia, it first appeared on a split seven inch single with Chad VanGaalen in 2016. This version differs, not losing the edge of the original, but at the same time, as was described on the earlier version of the track, is an expansion of Webb’s musical palette. Bry Webb’s third full-length album, Run With Me will be released on November 3rd via Idée Fixe Records.

Listen to the interview Revolution Rock did with Bry Webb here:

Show 1007 Playlist (Bry Webb Interview):

1.  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - I Pity the Country 
2.  Mitski - Buffalo Replaced 
3.  Wilco - Cousin
4.  Woods - Weep 
5.  Nora Kelly Band - Lay Down Girl
6.  Bry Webb - Thunder Bay 

BRY WEBB INTERVIEW PART 1

7.  Bry Webb - AM Radio 

BRY WEBB INTERVIEW PART 2

8.  Bry Webb - Rivers of Gold 
9.  Richard Laviolette - Bats 
10. Plumtree - July 3rd
11. Mean Red Spiders - Compromise 
12. Gaze - Shady
13. Horse Chops - Spaceship in the Sky
14. Melody Fields - In Love 
15. Slowdive - alife 
16. Animal Collective - Gem & I 
17. Faust - The Sad Skinhead
18. Faust - Jennifer 

To hear this program, visit CJAM's schedule page for Revolution Rock and click the September 30 file to download/stream the episode.