[FM] Toronto Star Review of Bill Colgate's CD "waiting for simon"

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BILL COLGATE
Waiting For Simon
(CD Baby/www.billcolgate.com)

Toronto actor-turned-award-winning singer/songwriter Bill Colgate's 
impressive roots rock debut a couple of years ago - songs from when dinosaurs ruled the 
earth won top prizes in the prestigious USA Songwriting Competition and The 
John Lennon Songwriting Contest and led to showcase appearances in New York and 
Nashville - served notice of the arrival of an important and committed new 
talent on the Canadian independent music scene.
Colgate's sophomore effort is a mature set of largely acoustic, folk based 
story songs marked by a literate wit (the comically sardonic "The Emperor's New 
Clothes" was a finalist in last year's Mountain Stage NewSong Festival in the 
U.S.), whimsy and more than a touch of melancholy.  Co-produced by 
multi-instrumentalist Cam MacInnes and Bob Cobban and featuring drummer David Norris, 
primo bassist David Woodhead and a bevy of local specialists (singers Kim Cole 
and Liz Tansey, accordionist and string arranger David Matheson, Steve 
Goldberger and Joe Ingrao on Hammond B3) Waiting For Simon benefits from the sense of 
drama inherent in Colgate's compelling and distinctive vocal style, and from 
several remarkably well crafted songs, among which "The Grace Of You", "I Don't 
Know A Soul In Toronto Tonight" and "Not Another Song About The Rain" are 
spectacular standouts.

Greg Quill
Toronto Star
08/26/04