VA - Toronto Covers Project - At the End of Every Hard Earned Day People Find Some Reason to Believe (2020) [Hi-Res]

A buncha months ago, when the new normal felt temporary, I thought it would be fun to make a compilation with some artists & friends I play drums for/ worked with/ & admired over the years. Given the circumstances, loneliness, isolation, feeling & focus, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska felt like an appropriate cipher for the moment. When I listen to the songs on Nebraska I think about justice & justification; the absence of the former and the ever-churning of the latter, as present as the tape hiss on the Tascam the record was performed on. I think about complicated lives lived by complicated people in complicated situations. I think about peace & fear & hope & a lack of options. I think about organizations like Toronto Overdose Prevention Society, Encampment Support Network, Foodshare Toronto. Organizations that very literally save the lives of communities, families & individuals that our governments, civic & federal, would rather forget about. I’d like to thank all the contributors who donated their time to feel what many of us have been feeling, connect with these songs & elevate them. At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe....