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E6 CALGARY HERALD Thursday, June 14, 2007 ENTERTAINMENT Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Alternative Country This Last week This week National This week National Last week week National I Artist Artist Carrie Underwood Some Hearts Current Hard Rock Artist il Tnis Last Last weeK week Nationa Artst week week Natona Artist week GoodGrt'lISieBad 1 2 Marilyn Manson 1 1 Rlhanna good bin gone Bad Eat Me Drink Me Good Girl gone Bad EMMenkMe 2 1 UnklnPark 1 2 2 Amy Winehouse 3 tat Me Drink Me Minutes To Midnight Back To Black MinrJMMninht 1 3 3 OzzyOsbourne 2 3 3 Justin Timberlake 1 MinutesToMidnight BlackRain Vmbaland Presents Shock Value 4 5 Daughtry 3 4 4 Justin Timberlake 2 Memory Almost Full Daughtry FuturesexAove Sounds 2 5 4 Dream Theatre -55 Belly It Wont Be Soon Before Long Systematic Chaos The Revolution 6 6 Finger Eleven 5 6 9 BoneThugs-N-Harmony 8 "ce Them Vs. You Vs. Me Strength A Loyalty OzzyOsbourne 3 7 8 Nine Inch Nails 4 7 6 Akon 6 BlackRain Year Zero Konvicted 4 8 7 Megadeth 6 8 8 Ne-Yo 9 Call Me Irresponsible United Abominations Because Of You 9 14 Various Artists 9 10 Robin Thicke 5 tany 2007 Warped Tour Compilation Evolution Of Robin R'nl9- 5 10 10 Nickelback 10 10 7 R. Kelly 4 Best Damn Thing All The Right Reasons Double Up 2 Big Rich Between Raising Hell Amazing 5 Taylor Swift 7 Taylor Swift 3 Tim McGraw 3 Let It Go Dixie Chicks 5 Taking The Long Way 5 Rascal Flatts 2 Me 4 My Gang Gretchen Wilson 4 One Of The Boys 9 Keith Urban 6 Love Pain The Whole Crazy Thing UnklnPark Minutes To Midnight Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long Chris Cornell Carry On Avril Lavigne Best Damn Thing Amy Winehouse Back To Black Feist Reminder Gwen Stefanl Sweet Escape Daughtry Daughtry Finger Eleven Them Vs. You Vs.

Me Nine Inch Nails Vear Zero 12 10 14 10 14 10 Johnny Reid Kicking Stones 10 10 12 10 15 Alison Krauss Hundred Miles or More A Collection Little Miss Higgins making big noise gether and we have a friend, she's an older woman who lived in Nokomis for many, many years, taught school there. She had this great old house with a huge garden and she wasn't living there anymore and we said, Why don't we live in your house for you, plant the garden, replace the toilet because it's falling through the So it's worked out. It's got high-speed Internet, it's got a telephone." It also has winter, a deadly cold winter that froze many a pioneer butt under sod roofs long ago. But for the modern gal with high-speed Internet, it's a great time to work on guitar chops and Higgins has evidently put in her woodshedding time. While Taylor keeps up a solid guitar rhythm behind her, Higgins pulls off some interesting little flatpicked runs, a little bit Mem phis Minnie and a little bit Muddy Waters.

She can also write in the style. On the opening That Train's a'Comin' Down on the Tim Williams-produced Junction City, she sounds like she found some old, forgotten standard and managed to cajole Les Paul into playing the lead her parts. Big Leafed Baby is classic slow, country blues played by Taylor and Higgins on a pair of vintage 1930s resonator guitars they borrowed It's all a very cool package, right down to the name. "When I moved to Saskatchewan," says Higgins, "a friend just started calling me that and it stuck. Then other people started calling me Little Miss Higgins.

And it works as a stage name so I just kept it. That's it." Courtesy, Little Miss Higgins Blues artist Little Miss Higgins has just released her sophomore CD. 15: -J JR I 1 riSwlww ilo TI IIS WEEK AT THE ZOO -fl'i 4 1-4 i THERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE OR THE 200. Alberta-born artist singing the blues in a massive way JOHN P. MCLAUGHLIN CanWest News Service If you assume by her Little Miss Higgins handle that Jolene Higgins is on the shortish side, well, OK, you're right.

She's a touch over five foot two although "sometimes I like to say five foot three inches but it's not true." Diminutive she may be but she has one seriously Big Momma take on an acoustic-blues style popularized 70-plus years ago by the likes of the fiery Memphis Minnie. And like Minnie, Higgins is a pretty hot guitar player to boot. SPOTLIGHT She is on her cell Little Miss today, pulled over in Higgins Pincher Creek, performs Friday where the winds atthelronwood blow strong and the and Saturday at big blades of the the Auburn windmill farms spin Saloon me distance. She and partner Foy Taylor have been playing to sold-out crowds all across Western Canada. They're out touring Higgins' new Junction City album all over the country, St.

John's to Victoria, staying in motels here, hotels there, and even have their camping equipment with them, should it come to that. Junction City is the old name for the little town in Saskatchewan where Higgins hangs her mittens these days, a place called Nokomis, named after Hiawatha's grandmother from Longfellow's fanciful epic poem on North American natives, The Song of Hiawatha. The population of Nokomis at the last census was 436. In 1908 it was 508. That's when the two national railways converged on Nokomis and the local cafe couldn't boil the coffee fast enough.

Now it's just the freight trains passing through, hauling grain and mustard seed and whatever else the farmers grow. Alberta-born and raised for 10 years in Independence, Kansas her dad was in oil Little Miss Higgins, brought up playing piano and guitar, nevertheless found this place via the Canadian College of Performing Arts in Victoria. "Yeah, when I graduated from high school I didn't know what else to do so I went to theatre school," says Higgins. "I was doing a play with some folks I went to school with and we took the show to Regina and I drove the set from Victoria in my truck. After we did the play, everyone flew back to Victoria and myself and the set in the back of my truck stayed in Regina.

I didn't know where else I wanted to go. I just never left "I used the set as furniture in my apartment because I didn't have money for furniture. And then I met Foy and we started playing music to EARLY BIRD PRICES END JULY 31! Seductive rbytbiru, delectable food, exotic beverages, provocative performers. South American! Saturday, September 8h. 6pm to midnight.

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