Art - David Doucette
Art - David Doucette
What is the relationship, the true relationship, between artist and muse? Harry realizes that he has always had a muse, after Lemonade enters his door at the Tarantula Arms. Harry is on stage at the Crybaby Bar where he promises never to sing a covering ever again. He will sing his own tunes come hell or high water. And he will start with, 'There's a Sadness Going Around.' But there on stage, haunted as if by demons that have come to remind him of some contract he signed, his mind goes to the faithful night at Jollimore's, the trailer with the blue wings down at the tides, the delta of Slow River.
Art - David Doucettte
The Hippie child Lemonade is outside Harry's door at the Tarantula Arms. It is rainy night and fog fills Steel City. Lemonade comes in and sits in Harry’s brown barrel chair and asks Harry how to identify a good man. Harry shakes his head, looks across the room. Has he found his muse and that another season of songwriting is upon him?
Art - David Doucette
Walking up Iron Street after a Crybaby gig - after K.O. shoots down the Cannonball, Harry recalls the night before he went on tour for the first time. It was with the band from Jollimore’s trailer, The Holy Molies. Harry was 14 years old but he attended the best educational institution there is in music - the road.
Art - David Doucette
Harry sings ‘The Cannonball’ but doesn’t make big splash with Toronto record producer K.O. Biggs. K.O. will visit the Crybaby Bar tomorrow night but Harry had better ‘Put on the Ritz’. Walking home, Harry recalls those years past when he went into Jollimore’s trailer and saw for the first time a live band. He knew what he wanted to do with his life just not the course on which it would take him.
Art - David Doucette
On his bike, with the Banner Gibson guitar over his shoulder, Harry drives down to Slow River when his pant cuff gets caught in his bike chain and he falls in front of Jollimore’s trailer. An exotic barefoot woman comes out to the road to pull him off. ‘I’m Clarissa. They call me, ‘Baby Fingers,’ she says and Harry is stunned by her beauty. Harry goes down the road with Clarissa to the old rusted trailer with the blue victory wings.
Art - David Doucette
The Banner Gibson guitar is too valuable and Harry’s father says it needs to go back to its owner. Jollimore. “Give it to him at the church. Don’t go down to Slow River.” Jollimore is nowhere to be found at the church. So Harry ventures down to Slow River to return the guitar. No one he knows has ever been down to Slow River.
Art - David Doucette
Harry pedals his bicycle into work at the graveyard. He has the Banner Gibson guitar but Jollimore, who has not missed a day in 30 years, is nowhere to be found. Harry must attend to the funeral clean up on his own. “Where is he?” says Father Don. “This is related to that guitar, I know it!”
Art - David Doucette
Jollimore teaches Harry the graveyard chords C, F and G. He then breaks into song with the guitar at the gravestones, singing, 'The Cannonball'. Father Don rushes across the road: ‘Stop the guitar! The R.I.P. means, Rest In Peace!’
Art - David Doucette
In his first job at a graveyard, Harry meets the peculiar character Jajoe Jollimore, who tells Harry he plays guitar. Harry has no interest in the guitar. This prompts Jollimore to bring his own to the graveyard where he teaches Harry how to play.
Art - David Doucette
Back to the graveyard, where it came from for Harry. Ja-joe Jollimore was the graveyard worker that introduced Harry to the guitar. Jollimore discloses to Harry that he is a guitar player. Harry has no interest in guitars. This distresses Jollimore.
Art - David Doucette
Back to the graveyard, where it came from for Harry. Ja-joe Jollimore was the graveyard worker that introduced Harry to the guitar. Jollimore discloses to Harry that he is a guitar player. Harry has no interest in guitars. This distresses Jollimore.
