Lovely picks on the songs. What Charlie Angus said “He was our Maybelle Carter, our Woody Guthrie, our Ramones.” (quoting Dave Bidini.)

I thought of him as a punk rocker, maybe because as a Toronto girl, punk rock, roots rock, rockabilly blurred together. We wore cowboy boots to gigs at the Horseshoe, all dressed in black.

Here’s to stomping upon the terra with Tom.