Latest Musical Discovery: Pawnshop Diamond
Last week I was having coffee in John’s Place, a Victoria institution. There were a bunch of posters around the place for an upcoming appearance by a Vancouver band called Pawnshop Diamond:
I stopped to take a photo because of the blurb on the poster. As you can see, it reads:
Cowboy Junkies meets Wilco singing drunken Canadian love songs.
I like Wilco. I love the Cowboy Junkies. And I’m Canadian. It sounds like a band tailor-made for me. I checked out their MySpace page (they’re also on Facebook), and, indeed, I quite like their music. I haven’t paid a ton of attention to their lyrics, but I liked the sound of a phrase from the song “Sweet Music”: “Neil Young is a plant on my window sill, always leaning toward the sun”.
They’re not on iTunes, eMusic or even the Canadian-only Zunior. You can buy a CD or get MP3s from CD Baby, but I’ll probably go to their gig on August 30 and buy a CD the old-fashioned way.
UPDATE: I take it back, they are on iTunes.
Nick 
