Bill Bourne and Shannon Johnson have just made the finest album of their
lives. Just ask them.
Bourne, of course, being longer in the tooth, has more experience in these
matters. The proof sits on the mantelpiece of his downtown home.
Junos are heavy. The one awarded to Bill Bourne and Alan MacLeod for
Dance and Celebrate - the best roots or traditional album recorded in 1990 -
needs two hands to lift. Nobody in Canada at the time approached roots music
with such an unorthodox, open-minded, uplifting spirit as these two. They would
make only one more album, Moonlight Dancers, before splitting in a haze of
substance abuse.
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