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SW: It was really a one of a kind unique event. A lot of people are doing online events and I’m not

doing that kind of stuff really, but I organised that with my friend Joel, who did the artwork. It was
really cool [laughing].

BiTS: Have you got any plans to go gigging this new album?

SW: We’re locked down, right. Like honestly, I can’t even imagine. I don’t know what’s going to
happen. I live in a town where there’s only a few venues, so for me to go touring, it’s a little bit of a

feat. It really is where I live.

BiTS: Getting to gigs is a problem I guess?

SW: Okay. Well, here to get to the next town to play shows is a seven-hour drive.

BiTS: Oh, wow, still that.

SW: Yeah. For me to play, touring it’s like a three-week, four-week thing taking time off and we’re
just all dealing with being locked down and not knowing what’s going to happen.

BiTS: What’s your nearest big city, Sunday?

SW: The biggest biggest city in Canada is Toronto and that’s an 18-hour drive.

BiTS: No, the nearest one to you.
Toronto Skyline
SW: Thunder Bay has 100,000 people, so
the nearest one to me is Toronto. The big
big big city. If I go to Toronto, I can play

four or five shows in a week, so that’s
probably what I’ll to do is go down in the
summer if I can, but I don’t know if I can
even travel right now.

BiTS: I don’t know whether you know it,
but one of my two radio shows goes out

from a radio station which is based in
Toronto. Blues and Roots Radio.

SW: Yes, I know them. They have quite a
few. Yeah, that’s been going for a while. I
noticed that you’re on that and there’s a few Canadian DJs that are also on that as well that have
played my music too and yeah, they’re really doing a lot with that station for sure.

SW: But I really honestly don’t know what’s going to happen with touring. I did quite a bit of that

with Reno Jack and he drove, and he helped with all that and you know touring is a lot of work.

BiTS: What are your plans for marketing this album? How are you getting it out there because if
you’re not able to tour, as you’re not, what plans have you got for selling it?

SW: I’m focusing on radio and I’m focusing on TV and film placement, possibly. Just that kind of
thing and just word of mouth. That’s all that I am able to do right now. I don’t know how many

artists are touring. Are their people touring where you are?

BiTS: It’s starting to pick up just a little. I run this blues magazine, as you know, and for months
now, we’ve had no gigs to put in it at all, but in the last week or so, there have been just one or two