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Single: Open Strum Explore a Little Reggae with ‘Steady Blue Eyes feat. Izabelle Ouellet & Mickey Raphael’

We were warned when Open Strum released “Wildfire” last year that the next track they’d put out would take a distinctive reggae turn. It’s not the sort of sound you’d expect to come out of Memramcook, nor would you expect to find Willie Nelson’s harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, playing on it, but we have come to expect surprises from Michel Goguen. with their latest track, “Steady Blue Eyes,” Goguen is both exploring that reggae sound and pushing himself as a songwriter. Continue reading Single: Open Strum Explore a Little Reggae with ‘Steady Blue Eyes feat. Izabelle Ouellet & Mickey Raphael’

Single: Open Strum’s ‘Wildfire’ is Your Non-Specific Disaster Pick-Me-Up

Memramcook, New Brunswick’s Open Strum recently released “Wildfire,” a standalone single about coping with everything the world is currently throwing at us, but with the foresight to recognize we don’t want to be singing along to the problems on 2018 forever. Continue reading Single: Open Strum’s ‘Wildfire’ is Your Non-Specific Disaster Pick-Me-Up