Excerpt of article:
"This is, after all, the Rick Moranis who long before Honey I Shrunk the Kids and even before SCTV, got his start in the biz by playing country music DJ at AM radio station CKFH. And who, he adds, appreciated the wonders of country music from an early age.
"Growing up in Toronto in the '60s and through the '70s, it always felt to me like everything departed from Gordon Lightfoot," he explains. "He was at the centre of everything. And sure he was on the pop charts, but to me that was folk-country music.
"It had all the earmarks of real, traditional country music and yet we never called it that: We called it Gordon Lightfoot. But that was country music. Stompin' Tom was much more primitive, if wonderfully so.
"Now, you get this very manufactured, pop-like, over-arranged sound that's coming out of the large record companies via Nashville. Mainstream country. And that, I'm not interested in.
"I think there's some good songwriting and there are some great performers, but that's a kind of production that doesn't interest me. The kind of production I'm interested in, is what my album became, where you can hear every instrument and there's room for players to do their thing." "
from the Ottawa Sun interview at
http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/Mus...29333-sun.html