Great Big Sea

E- Even one more I just kinda mention.

You, you mentioned i- if Canadians will get Shawn McCann from Great Big Sea.

Yeah.

Um, who much like you, you know, kinda decided he wanted to step away from the spotlight and be very upfront and honest about things that a lot of people wouldn't.

In our younger lives with Great Big Sea, we would always give people the gears.

What do you mean you've never been to Newfoundland? As I get older, I go like, of course you haven't been to Newfoundland.

It's not on the way to anywhere else.

In Where I Belong, he takes us back to his childhood home in Petty Harbour where the wharf was a workplace for 10-year-old kids.

The Doyles were the town band and knowing an Anne Murray song could persuade his aunts to let him stay up late during a family kitchen party.

In A Newfoundlander in Canada, he heads out across the country with Great Big Sea, Newfoundland's biggest musical export.

Discovering a country that had seemed almost as distant as another planet when he was a child.

And in the smiling land, the journey brings him home, seeing familiar places with fresh eyes and sharing them with his son.

And I just love that idea of like writing something because the idea of a song for me being like, you know, played forever, or like people cover it for years, or it's in the, you know, vernacular of a town.

like on George Street, if you walk down George Street, you're going to hear Great Big Sea and you're going to hear Ron Hines and you're going to hear, you know, Dermot O'Reilly songs being played.

I don't know that I see any longevity in my stuff.

I think the idea for me is like just the experience in it of, yes, I wrote this song.