Ep. #1118: Don Pyle

Don Pyle returns to discuss his lovely new memoir, Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories from a Life in Music, summers in Toronto, why he wrote this deeply personal book of reflections, recollections, and remembrances, what we learn about departed friends like Reid Diamond, Dallas Good, and Steve Albini, thriving in spite of a difficult childhood and a mother in emotional duress, kinship with Kids in the Hall and the Good Family, discussing dreams about and visitations from Dallas Good, the time that Steve Albini came to Toronto to record Phono-Comb and King Cobb Steelie, a gift from Rik Emmett from Triumph, upcoming book events, other future plans, and much more.

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