Rykodisc

Whatever I get the most requests for, that's gonna be the set list, and then I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want." [laughs] And it was kind of a big deal.

It also, um, coincided with the re-release of his entire catalog from Rykodisc.

Uh, I've mentioned them before.

They're a company that I have called spiritually Canadian, whatever that means.

... and what he was about until all of this stuff came out.

Mm-hmm.

And a friend of mine had the singles collection from the Rykodisc.

Uh, the, there was the singles, I think four-disc, two-disc, number of discs.

And I'm like, "Huh, feels like something's about to happen here." Got, uh, got together with a f- uh, with Alan McGee, who, uh, who was running Creation Records in the UK.

Got together with the folks at Rykodisc in the US, and we worked out s- uh, parallel record deals, you know, very modest budgets.

And, uh, I had all these songs, and I had to find some musicians.

So, uh, David Barbe was, uh, a friend of a friend.

It...

You know, I mean, Alan, Alan, uh, he was able to get people's attention on behalf of the band, so very grateful for how that all started up in the UK.

Uh, with Rykodisc in the US, you know, again, great folks.

You know, John Hammond, Jeff Rugby, J- uh, Jim, Jim Neal, Don Rose.