Style: freaky folk fantastic
Line-Up:C.A. Smith (bass drum, tambourine shoe, acoustic guitar, kazoo, vocals)
Contact: Sonic Unyon, P.O. Box 57347, Jackson Station, Hamilton, ON L8P 4X2 (905) 777-1223, .

The world is his. Freaky folkster Mayor McCa (C.A. Smith) might be a guy you’d meet in the tall grass, chewing on a stalk of corn when he’s not playing kazoo and strumming the acoustic with a tambourine stuck on the sole of his sneaker. The former lead singer for Hamilton, ON’s Gorp, now a self-proclaimed “one-man-band singing sensation”, is quirky, no doubt, but tuneful too. The album, Busboy, is not as weird as ya’d think. For “Cotton Candy World”, McCa might have sucked back a little bit of helium on this one, but it’s wonderfully catchy. There’s parts you’d swear he was gonna break into a yodel, but he just seems too tired from the trek up the mountain. “Coffee Tim” is a picture of romance if ever there was a doo-wop, Sha Na Na ode to the steamy brew. “Tuesday Night…At…Sometime” is a gentle lullaby and “21” a less than celebratory birthday wish. “Aah” is a deep-sleep psychedelic folk song, zippidity doo-daa gruff and cool and “Jagermeister Boogie” is a drunken anthem for all Peter Pan frat boys. Busboy was produced by Major McCa and Tobias Link, and “created at various times and states” by Christian Anderson Smith at Whizbang Studios in Hamilton. It was co-engineered and mixed by Link and mastered at Number 9 by George Rondina. 

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