These Days by The Grapes of Wrath

These Days, the Grapes of Wrath's 1991 album on Nettwerk, is the sound of the Kelowna, British Columbia, band pushing their folk rock out toward something louder. John Leckie produced it and Gareth Cousins mixed it, and the jangle gets roughed up with heavier guitars, while Phil Comparelli and members of XTC, billed as the Dukes of Stratosphear, drop by as guests. Kevin Kane and Tom Hooper share the singing, with Chris Hooper and Vincent Jones alongside.

It sold, too: "You May Be Right" and "I Am Here" were hits, even if critics preferred 1989's Now and Again. For the third single, "A Fishing Tale", MuchMusic ran a contest whose prize was a fishing trip with Tom Hooper, Jones and VJ Terry David Mulligan. Then the lineup cracked: Kane left over creative differences, the others carried on as Ginger, and there would be no new Grapes of Wrath album for almost a decade.

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