Joel Plaskett Talks About His New CD "3"

Today I got my 3rd interview of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival with Nova Scotia musician Joel Plaskett. He told me a bit about his new CD 3, his inspirations and about traveling. This will be my main interview for the coverage of the folk fest in my July/August issue of Die Zeitung. Here's some highlights of the interview.


His new CD 3 is all about 3s. It includes 3 CDs, and most of the songs titles are a word or phrase repeated 3 times. "It's a traveling record so it's kind of about going away, being alone and returning home. It's a long record because I wanted it to feel like a journey."

In many of the songs there are also phrases that are repeated, like the Berlin wall and good things come... "It's good things come to those who wait, but as the songs came it was good things come to those who run, and good things come to those who roll."

Joel Plaskett also travels a lot, mostly all over Canada, and because Canada is so big, I thought maybe the audiences could be different in different provinces or cities. "Well there's maritimers all over Canada, so they make a lot of the shows feel very much like home."


I will be putting some pictures up later, but now I have an interview with Israeli musician Idan Rachiel. So stay tuned for highlights from that. If you would like the whole interview with Joel Plaskett, subscribe to my newspaper Die Zeitung or buy the July/August issue of Die Zeitung if you haven't done so already.

So stay tuned if you weren't able to make it to the folk fest. But if you are here, I'll see you on the hill!