Rocky road for Tagalong

Mike Strobel | Toronto Sun:

"Ahh, guitar in hand, prairie wind in his hair, salt spray in his face, northern forests murmuring in his ear. A glorious adventure. A bounty of material for his next CD.

No such luck. The Road of Life ends in Cornerbrook. 'I was real discouraged, Mike,' he tells me yesterday at his regular haunt, Joe's Pastizzi Plus on Dundas St. W.

'It was a strange feeling, standing in a strange city, not knowing anyone, not knowing where I was going.'

So he and Peanut hop a flight home to their usual busking doorway on Bloor St. near Windermere. 'I thought you were going across Canada,' the first local says.

'I tried,' says Paul.

But hold the phone, cowboy. The dream is not moribund. Just morphed ..."