Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Singer-songwriter, Queen of Country Pop, with three consecutive Diamond albums and the best-selling studio album by a female solo artist.
On the island
Eight records
I would need a piece of music like this because it takes me back to when I first discovered harmonizing vocal harmonizing.
My favorite floating in the clouds song to skate to was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John.
Dust in the WindFavourite
At this age I'm twelve. The music teacher... understood that I had a talent... I asked him... if I could come straight in... Sit down and play guitar 'cause there's this new song I really want to learn. It's called Dust in the Wind.
My grandmother, Eileen, was El Paso. And Marty Robbins played in our house a lot.
And Gabriel's oboe comes on in the soundtrack. And I'm just paralyzed and I just cry my face off for I don't even remember how long I was just numb.
If I had been born a boy, I would have wanted to have your voice.
I will never get tired of hearing this song... I always dreamt as a child that I would some day become his back up singer.
a childhood song, a folk song, and it was a story that I considered a mystery.
The keepsakes
The book
Brian Hines
I read this book when I was just feeling really desperate. I think this was the biggest thing with my divorce.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:31How determined were you in the early days to break out of the mould [of stereotypes in country music]?
I was thirty when I had my first top ten record. I'm already quite mature at this point now, but I'm still leery of the man that sees me as an object... my songs of I'm happy to be a woman and I love men, just don't try to dominate me.
Presenter asks
5:27What was life in Timmins like?
remote because the nearest Main city is, you know, thirteen hours drive away, depending on your speed limit. And there's a lot of wildlife. This is a town that was founded on gold mining. Tough people.
Presenter asks
8:14How as a little girl did you make sense of what you were seeing, what you were witnessing?
As a little girl, living in a violent home is very confusing. It's scary. I remember being four, and my little sister was two, and my older sister was six. Us girls ran out on to the porch in the snow, but we were in our pajamas in our bare feet. So it was really cold. I mean, we were freezing out there. And we're watching the this fight. ... And I just remember the feeling of my feet in that snow, and then the loud footsteps of the the police officers coming up the wooden stairs, squeaking in the snow. To save us.
Presenter asks
24:51Your parents were killed in a head-on collision with a lorry. You were just twenty-two. What do you remember about that night?
I collapsed hearing that news over the phone. My sister called me and I could hear my little brother howling in the background. We were all just wailing together the kids could not be separated.
Presenter asks
41:59So when did you and Fred realize that you were falling for each other?
I barely knew Fred. I don't know one to one. Friendship level. ... He takes the blinders off, tells me what's going on, and I don't believe him. ... it just was never gonna end and and so friend and I we collapse and go, you know, at some point we just gotta. let it go, and in that time we found each other.
“I remember being four, and my little sister was two, and my older sister was six. Us girls ran out on to the porch in the snow, but we were in our pajamas in our bare feet.”
“I collapsed hearing that news over the phone. My sister called me and I could hear my little brother howling in the background.”
“And Gabriel's oboe comes on in the soundtrack. And I'm just paralyzed and I just cry my face off for I don't even remember how long I was just numb.”
“I said, if I had been born a boy, I would have wanted to have your voice.”
“I will not ever survive if I do not have insect repellent. No way. Do not ever send me anywhere in any nature without insect repellents. I won't survive, I admit it.”