It’s one of the definitive heartland rock songs. Yet many people likely don’t realize the fellow who wrote and performed it is Canadian. We’re talking about Tom Cochrane’s massive 1991 hit “Life Is a ...

Twenty-five years ago today—on March 2, 1989—Tom Cochrane and Red Rider played the Orpheum with guests the Northern Pikes, a band from Saskatoon that I liked almost as much as the headliner.

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