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Podcast: Coffee with the Dog
Episode: Coffee with the Dog EP111 - Edison Rupert
Description: The Ottawa singer-guitarist’s latest release narrates the empty, anonymous existence of a homeless person with a plain-voiced candour that rings true. As it should. “Ticket To A Place is about a real-life experience I had more than 15 years ago,” Rupert says. “I saw a homeless man lying in the middle of the road with the traffic stopped in front of him. People were just watching from the sidewalk, and I went over to him and got him up and onto the sidewalk where I asked if he was OK, and in the end, he just wanted someone to care.” ...