Need a soundtrack for your next road trip? Rheostatics guitarist, author and devoted wanderer Dave Bidini shares his city-by-city playlist. Click the icon to hear the podcast.
CHARLOTTETOWN
, P.E.I.
I was driving up the Island from Kensington to
Charlottetown in the summer of 2006 when I achieved what I consider to be Canadian pop nirvana. I’d just passed
Cheese Factory Road when a French-Canadian pop station from the Gaspé played “Down to the Line” by BTO, right before it ran a Canadian Tire commercial in French.
HALIFAX
, NOVA
SCOTIA
Weddings, Parties, Anything wrote “Saturday Night in
Halifax” in
Australia, then sang it about 6,000 times during their Canadian tour in the summer of 1988. WPA was known for a lot of things, most notably being the drunkest band to ever appear on MuchMusic.
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