Swimming in September Wine

If I'm right, we all lose. I and I think I am, so watch yourself. I bought this April Wine album for cheap at a badly smelling and massive used bookstore in downtown Milwaukee. The corridors are quiet with only a few cats wandering here and there on the multiple levels. All rooms feature plaster falling from the ceiling and dangerously supported and over-stacked book shelves. One room features a sunken floor, which would probably warrant a condemned status. Anyway, I love the place, and shouldn't be running my mouth.

The story here is about April Wine. I enjoy the song, "Sign of the Gypsy Queen." It gives me an all around okay feeling. I didn't know they even performed the song, "Just Between You and Me." I thought that was Christopher Cross or something, due to it being a relatively terrible song. Anyway, "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" is a delightful song of terror, written just right. That's why it only makes sense that it was the only song not written by April Wine, but by Lorence Hud, who studied at the University of Saskatchewan. I suppose I'd like to think he's like Gordon Lightfoot, but charges less for show admittance. But I don't know that. April Wine made VERY little effort to modify Hud's version of this song. That's good I guess. And thus, I don't feel as depressed about today's music (and movie) scene. The Canadians started it, now the Americans will do them one better and finish it. As a note, April Wine is strongly Canadian, which proves that at one time they were turning their swords on each other. Those days are long boys and girls, long gone.