The Guest List
Thursday January 9th, 2025 with Joe Reilly
We talk to Kyp Harness about his 18th album kick the dust.

The Guest List is sponsored by Spaceman Music, located at 388 Bank Street, just west of Bank. Visit Spaceman for all of your music making needs and don't forget they have a great repair shop and offer music lessons. Check out Spaceman online at: https://www.spacemanmusic.com/ Any regular listener knows how much I admire the stellar songwriting of Kyp Harness and his long string of incredible albums dating back to 1991. He released album #18 in 2024, kick the dust and it is another strong collection of songs that call out rampant consumerism and the the indifference of the wealthy while celebrating the simple and important things in life like friendship, connection and love. Kyp joins us today to talk about the pared back production on this album and how it suits the ideas he's exploring in song on kick the dust. We talk about his enduring conviction to speak for ordinary people in song and how he keeps releasing great music despite the fact that he garners marginal attention for his great body of work. He makes a lot of sense both in song and in conversation... and I love his wry sense of humour that's apparent in his music and when he shares his thoughts on the state of the world. Everyone's excited about a biopic about the iconoclastic Dylan... but don't forget that we need iconoclasts today... and Kyp Harness is the real deal in that department - a troubadour who comments on the state of the world and can really make you think about life differently through his songs. I could not resist ending the show with his fantastic song Low Dishonourable Men from 2014 - it's a song that got me through the final years of the Harper regime here in Canada and seems sadly perfect again for what we are seeing south of the border and with the rising stature of "he who must not be named" here in Canada. He's not labelled PP for nothing. Sorry... I got off on a tangent there. Enjoy and consider supporting Kyp Harness by purchasing some of his reasonably priced albums at his Bandcamp site: https://kypharness.bandcamp.com/ And visit his website at: https://kypharness.net/ Thanks for listening and support independent music in any way that you can!