If you could see your music, what would it look like? 

If I could SEE my music, it would look like a natural landscape back home on White Bear First Nation. Gravel road, marshes in the distance to skate on in winter, green hills to explore, and backyards ready for a fire and evening visits with a small stereo playing 90s grunge and classic albums. 

What is the most crucial equipment for your music-making? 

The most crucial equipment for my music making. Bare bones includes: My acoustic guitar, notebook, pencil, and my iPhone to record scratch work to take home and produce in the studio properly. 

What is your favourite home cooked meal? 

This is a toss up between Holiday dinners with turkey, or home made soup we call “good soup” and just know what it means. 

Tell us a handful of songs that you've been enjoying lately.

I’ll try to narrow it down to a few recent listens. I absorb a lot of artists and they become favourites. 

1. Clapton - Lonely Stranger (unplugged). A real influence on my blues style playing and approach to the guitar as an instrument. 

2. Springsteen - Letter to You. 

3. Tonic - Open Up Your Eyes. A real good gritty classic.  

4. All songs by my northern brother Terry Uyarak  (most played is “Inuit Nunangat”) 

5. Kelly Fraser - "Fight for the right". Her energetic spirit and cultural pride are captured in this song. 

6. Nadjiwan - “Re-entry".  Great songwriting and layering by my close friend Marc.  

7. Hemingway Corner - "Love, love, love". A classic acoustic album I’ve always enjoyed. 

8. Derek Miller - "Come n Get Your Love". Great guitar playing and uplifting style by a great guitarist.  

9. Iskwé - “The Unforgotten". Powerful songwriting by my close friend and cousin. Always a fave.  

10. Novo Amor - “Colourway".  Ok, this one made me cry the first time I heard it. I was driving home from my son’s high school graduation by myself while he went to celebrate his grad dance. I heard his 8yr old voice say “Hi Dad” all over again.