COKE MACHINE GLOW GORDON DOWNIE PLUS
Entitled Coke Machine Glow: Songwriters’ Cabal, the triple-album features the original two-disc set plus a bonus record of twelve unreleased demos, alternate versions, and never-before-heard outtakes – carefully curated by Gord’s “oldest Toronto friend” Josh Finlayson and brother Patrick Downie with Arts & Crafts’ Jonathan Shedletzky – including the ominous “I Stand Before The Songwriters’ Cabal” and two opposing versions of the mysterious “Contact.” Now, to mark its 20th anniversary, Arts & Crafts announces a special expanded reissue that posthumously revisits the songs and poetry of this prolific period of Downie’s career. Twenty years since its release, Coke Machine Glow remains a teetering, charming body of work, never static, shot across its canvas in brilliant glowing embers and warm honey tones. The first solo project by one of the world’s great wordsmiths, Coke Machine Glow’s sixteen painterly songs were released with an accompanying book of poetry, collectively emanating Downie’s heartrending stories, from the road as from home, in his signature quirk and complex, approachable wit. Downie was a minor league hockey goalie and played for an Ontario championship winning Bantam level team in 1979.Gord Downie’s Coke Machine Glow was released in 2001, in between Music Work (2000) and In Violet Light (2002), the ninth and tenth albums by his mighty band of brothers in The Tragically Hip. Downie then studied film at Queen's University in Kingston. He graduated from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute in 1982, a school also attended by his band-mates. The godson of former Boston Bruins general manager and coach Harry Sinden, Downie attended Ernestown Secondary School (Odessa, Ontario) in grade nine and part of grade ten. Canadian indie band The Dinner Is Ruined plus Julie Doiron and Josh Finlayson, called The Country of Miracles, served as his backing band for the first three solo albums. Coke Machine Glow was sold along with a book of poetry of the same name, included with the CD. He released six solo albums the final two of which were release posthumously Coke Machine Glow (2001), Battle of the Nudes (2003) The Grand Bounce (2010), Secret Path (2016), Introduce Yerself (2017) and Away Is Mine (2020). He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. The godson of former Boston Bruins general manager and coach Harry Sinden, Downie attended Ernestown Secondary School (Od Canadian rock musician, writer and occasional actor. Canadian rock musician, writer and occasional actor.
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