This fall I went to the Princeton Tradtional Music Festival in British Columbia and had a lovely time. One of the highlights was seeing the Canadian folksinger Bob Bossin for the first time in many years.
I've had my complaints about Bossin over the years. He butchered, IMHO, a song by two of my favorite songwriters the last time I saw him. But I got his latest album The Roses on Annie's Table, and it is pretty wonderful.
As a sometime songwriter what knocked me out most was his similes. Here are a few of my favorites:
"She's got love, like a Jehovah's Witness, bangin' on her door again." - "Shirley Ann"
"The years rolled by like empties." - "Gary Davis"
"Love bears down like an eighteen-wheeler. Try to argue with an eighteen-wheeler." - "Lily"
You can hear some samples here.
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