I am like a lot of people in Canada when I say the first time I heard The Tragically Hip was in a vehicle on a gravel road. As The Hip prepares for its final show on their Man Machine Poem tour tonight in Kingston, Ont., much has been made of Gord Downie's patriotic and historical lyrics —and rightly so. What has been perhaps overlooked is how musically adventurous, eclectic and wonderfully weird The Tragically Hip has been for the past 30 years. There are songs like Sherpa hidden on every Tragically Hip album. But on Side B of Trouble at the Henhouse, The Tragically Hip went down the rabbit hole and showed music fans they were more than patriotic storytellers.

Source: CBC News August 20, 2016 11:26 UTC