Bruce Cockburn, Ian Tamblyn, and other Canadian folk and blues legends have just released a new album that pays tribute to Ottawa taxi driver, poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins. The double CD Dancing Alone features songs penned by Hawkins but never recorded before he became a taxi driver 34 years ago. Hawkins wrote them for the Children, a band he played in with Cockburn, Sneezy Walters and David Wiffen in the mid-1960s when Hawkins managed the legendary Le Hibou coffeehouse. Artists once gathered at the venue at Bank and Laurier streets to take in the words and voices of poets such as Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton, as well as musicians such as Reverend Gary Davis, or Blind Gary Davis as he was called, and John Lee Hooker. 'I took my then-wife and two kids down to Mexico. And when I returned, everyone else was famous.'— Bill...
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