Ongoing History Daily: The Tragically Hip’s Saskadelphia

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Last month, the Tragically Hip surprised everyone with an album of new-old music called Saskadelphia featuring material they recorded in the very early 90s for the Road Apples album but never used. These songs were lost for 30 years. Where were they?

There were at least 65 reels of two-inch analogue tape that went missing. Some of them weren’t even labeled. Other were tossed into boxes with tapes from other artists. A few were found in an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania that had been turned into a media storage facility. It took two years to pull this material together.

But the band also knows that there are a couple dozen tapes still unaccounted for. The search continues.

Monday’s Ongoing Daily was on The Beaches

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