Nowhere with You
by Josh O'Kane


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<p>Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that&#x2019;s just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk mimics who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of the &#x2019;90s pop &#x201c;explosion&#x201d; of major-label interest in Halifax.</p><br /><p>Canada&#x2019;s east coast has never been much of a pop-culture mecca. Most musicians from the region who&#x2019;ve ever made it big moved away. But armed with a stubborn streak and a knack for great songwriting, Plaskett has kept Halifax as his home, building both a career and a music community there. Along the way, he&#x2019;s earned great respect: when he plays shows in Alberta, east-coast expats literally thank him for staying home.</p><br /><p><i>Nowhere With You</i> is the study of how he pulled this off, from the origins of Canada&#x2019;s east-coast exodus to Plaskett&#x2019;s anointment as &#x201c;Halifax&#x2019;s Rick Rubin.&#x201d; It&#x2019;s a story about what happens when you call a city &#x201c;the new Seattle,&#x201d; about the lessons you learn playing to empty rooms in Oklahoma, and about defying radio-single expectations with rock operas and triple records. It&#x2019;s about doing what you want, where you want, no matter how much work it takes.</p>