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Volume 17, Issue 24, Week of June 18, 2018
Tom Cochrane: Humboldt players ‘off to immortality in the big leagues’
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inger-songwriter Tom Cochrane knows Canadian people, understands their hopes and dreams and, most significantly, knows how small towns are defined in the face of tragedy. “Like most Canadians, I was shocked People and depressed when I heard about the tragedy of the Humboldt bus accident because junior hockey defines what is best in Canada’s small communities,” he said. “The loss of those individuals hit us so hard because it was close to home and hockey is the essence of who we are and who we were.” There were 16 members of the Bronco family who lost their lives on April 6, when the bus carrying Humboldt to a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff game was in collision with a semi-trailer truck at a highway intersection about 30 kilometres from Tisdale. Cochrane has ridden the buses — first as a boy from Lynn Lake in the far north of Manitoba to Winnipeg and later, as the entertainer in the earliest years of a career which has extended to more than 35 years. Cochrane and his band, Red Rider, are
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Tom Cochrane will be the headliner at the SaskTel Jazz Festival on June 23. (James Bennett Photo) coming back to the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival on June 23 as headliners on the TD mainstage in the Bessborough Gardens. Because Cochrane had once written a hockey song, Big League, he was immediately drawn into the spotlight after the Humboldt accident. “The song resonated instinctively with
the feelings after the bus crash. James Duthie called me from TSN and asked if they could use my song on a hockey telecast. I said I’d have to know that the use of the song was acceptable to the Humboldt parents. James said he’d been on the ground at Humboldt and they welcomed the idea. In five minutes, I rewrote one of the verses.”
His reworked verse, which placed a stronger emphasis on the unpredictability of life, read like this: “All the right moves when he turned 18, ridin’ into the game and ridin’ with his team, ridin’ with their friends and ridin’ for their dreams, ridin’ off to immortality in the big leagues.” (Continued on page 13)
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