Rachel Jagt is, it is safe to say, a music fanatic. So when the time came to shake off the dull existence of post-university career choices, reviewing CDs seemed to be a light shining from above -- and it was telling her to write. And here she is today.

Her favourite things include anything Canadian (music, books, beer commercials...), the little jumps her heart takes the first time she listens to a really beautiful song, watching the sun set on the Atlantic on the way to Newfoundland....

She tends to search out things she can really experience, from live music to a gentle breeze on a deceptively warm fall day. She expects a new interest in photography to become one of her great loves.

She's a sucker for a really sad song, one that shows the writer isn't afraid to throw his or her soul open to whomever will listen. To Rachel, that's the point of music and poetry -- to pull listeners into a world they need but can't get on their own. Contact her at trubblemaker_76@yahoo.com.

Reviews by Rachel include:

Lisa Angelle
• Lisa Angelle

Dave Anthony
• 31B Victoria

The Backstabbers Country Stringband
• Let the Sunshine In

Anita Best
• Crosshanded

Paul Bromley
• Where I Come From

Kim Buchanan
• Will I Ever Know?

Tory Cassis
• Anywhere But Here

Nathan Caswell
• Einstein's Brain

Robert Crenshaw
• Victory Songs

Clayton Denwood
• Sunset on the Highway

Cliff Eberhardt
• Borders

The Fables
• Tear the House Down

Aengus Finnan
• Fool's Gold
• North Wind

Kathy Fleischmann
• Ten Doors Down

Doug Folkins
• Signs Along the Way
• Touchstone

Radney Foster
• Another Way to Go
• Are You Ready for the Big Show?

Lennie Gallant
• Le vent boheme
• Live

Lisa Gentile
• Becoming

Melinda Gidaly
• This Mortal Lust

James Gordon
• One Timeless Moment, with Sandy Horne

Great Big Sea
• Road Rage

Dave Gunning
• Caught Between Shadows

Bruce Guthro
• Guthro

Debra Guy
• That's Miss Passive-Aggressive to You

The Hackensaw Boys
• Keep It Simple

Tom Hambridge
• Balderdash

Joy Eden Harrison
• Unspoken

Tim Harrison
• Wheatfield with Crows

Into June
• The Lost Lyric

Colin James
• Fuse

Paul Joses
• Gold in a Muddy River

Bob Kemmis
• Okay so...

Lehto & Wright
• The Further Adventures of Darling Cory

John Spyder MacDonald
• By Sea, By Land

Madrigal
• Reverie

Jayne Margo-Reby
• Shades of Reason

Lydia McCauley
• Entrances

Suzanne McDermott
• Ephemera

Trevor Mills
• Karaoke Cowboy

Pamela Morgan
• Seven Years

Don Morrell
• After All These Years

David Newland
• Evergreen

Eamon O'Tuama
• Behind Every Life

Terry Penney
• Missing Marshville

Alun Piggins
• Balladesque

Jeremy Proctor
• Sundays & Mondays

Radio Kings
• self-titled

Roadside Theater
• Wings to Fly

Stacie Rose
• This is Mine

Justin Rutledge & the Junction Forty
• No Never Alone

Sarah Slean
• Blue Parade
• Universe

Bob Snider
• Stealin' Home

Sons of Maxwell
• Among the Living
• The Neighbourhood

Sons of the Never Wrong
• One If By Hand

Cory Tetford
• Grace

various artists
• Sailing on the Sea: An East Coast Compilation
• Remembering Stan Rogers: An East Coast Tribute
• Rollin' into Memphis: The Songs of John Hiatt
• Stan Rogers -- A Matter of Heart: The Musical Revue

The Wakami Wailers
• Waltz with the Woods

The Wayfaring Strangers
• This Train

Nancy White
• Stickers on Fruit

Ina May Wool
• Moon Over 97th Street


Aengus Finnan

ArtsCan Circle Benefit Concert

Lennie Gallant

Jory Nash, Aengus Finnan, Joel Morelli

Stan Rogers - A Matter of Heart: the Musical Revue

Sons of Maxwell

The Undesirables


Sabine Keevil
• Guitars & Cadillacs
• Long Way Home