Howard Druckman is a music writer, editor of the SOCAN Words + Music magazine and one half of the dustbowl duo Hotcha! We talk about his history writing about music, his experience as Polaris Prize juror, how championing music he cares about energizes him and the time Madonna called him out onstage because of a piece he’d written about her.
“I’ve been very, very lucky that I get to earn a living by listening to music and by talking to people who make it because that keeps me invested and excited. The difference I think, for me anyway, is that when I was younger, I would listen to music and it would be about my life. When I listened to The Who’s Quadrophenia it was so close to the bone of my own fairly dysfunctional family, that it was like “oh my god”. I couldn’t believe it. Or when I first heard Dylan and just went completely nuts, that spoke right to my heart. Now, there’s stuff that still speaks to me but it’s still a matter of the heart and it’s still emotional but it’s more like huge respect and admiration for what people are doing and how people are passionate and intense and strong about what they’re doing. I mean, I’m not experiencing what Snotty Nose Rez Kids are experiencing. I’m not experiencing what Haviah Mighty is experiencing. But the art they’re making is just so strong that I care about it and it moves me. It doesn’t move me the same way ‘cause it’s not about my life, but it still moves me.”
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