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Shenkman Arts Centre. River Run Centre. Capitol Theatre. Fredericton Playhouse. Imperial Theatre. Park Theatre. Broadway Theatre. Casino Regina. Southminster United Church. Bo's Bar and Grill. Arden Theatre. Bella Concert Hall. The Dream Cafe. Early on I was recording in the front entrance of a studio owned by a friend, James Paul, well north of Dundas on Keele Street. I road my bike there at all hours to sneak recording and writing in when his schedule allowed it. He also gave me a bass when mine was stolen out of my mother's car in the middle of a rainy day at Church and Shuter.

I remember riding up there in the middle of the night to sleep on the couch and record and discover. It was a glorious time. I have memories of eating peanut butter off my finger, and the smell of the bone grinder at the Abattoir across the way. Shortly after, I moved my modest studio to the basement of a friend's recently deceased grandmother on Hillsdale Avenue.

My friend's grandma had been a dance teacher in Vienna, and spent half her time there and the other in Toronto. The place was a museum of strange art and musical instruments. I realize now it was a great gift. This place became Hawksleytown Studio, where most of this album was recorded. I learned a great deal from all of these people. I don't mean this to be entirely sentimental.

I listen to this music and it fills me with a funny peace. But I have grown, traveled and experienced, and I am grateful. These songs are by no means my definitive beginnings, for those go way back to the embarrassing church school plays and awkward songs written in high school. These are the true beginnings of my voice that I still write and sing with today; the same voice, but now, naturally a little weathered and a little wiser.

Back then I had time to write. I was broke, had no job, and did things like practiced walking blindfolded in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. I was consumed.

I drank dandelion tea. I wrote and recorded perpetually. Outside of Hawksley on drums, and Kevin on guitars and bass, the record features cellist Matt Brubeck, tuba player extraordinaire Colin Couch, woodwind player John Johnson, and harmonica genius Mike Stevens. After a few nights of recording, they selected their favourite compositions and asked Montreal recording artist, Murray Lightburn The Dears to mix what became, Breit Workman.