CBC weather forecast precipitates pop ballad
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 | 2:40 PM ET
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A local CBC Radio weather forecast provided the inspiration for a ballad on the Barenaked Ladies' new album.
Peterborough and the Kawarthas is one of 13 songs on Barenaked Ladies Are Me, which was released Tuesday.
Jim Creeggan, the band's bassist, told the Peterborough Examiner the song sprang from the CBC's daily weather forecast for southern Ontario, which includes the region of Peterborough and the Kawarthas.
A new song by the Canadian group Barenaked Ladies, which was inspired by a CBC weather forecast, could put Peterborough on the map.
(CBC)
He said he liked the way the words "Peterborough and the Kawarthas" sounded.
"The name has always caught my ear, it sounds like such a pristine place," Creeggan wrote on the Barenaked Ladies' blog in response to a fan's question about the name of the song.
"I started to write a song that was about longing for that place. I ended up writing about the thing that I long for the most."
He said the song's underlying meaning is about a fictional conversation he would have with his young son.
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