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#Swamp song risky business lyrics series#
This blog post is part of an ongoing series focused on the tourism sector in the Kootenays. “A life that’s too scripted is something I try to avoid,” the happy freelancer now proudly posits.Ĭheck out Al Lee’s new self-titled album on Bandcamp, and follow his Facebook page for upcoming gigs. That’s very much the feeling you get after you’ve performed.”Īnd, it would seem, after you’ve had the courage to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes. Conditions might have sucked, but it doesn’t matter. “It’s the feeling of accomplishment,” he explains. He says steep skiing and music aren’t the most obvious combo, but are actually very similar. Ali isn’t just a ski guide, he’s a highly accomplished ski mountaineer with descents in the history books. “Comfort kind of scares me.”īut this has always been obvious. “I think I’m pretty much going in the opposite direction everyone else is,” he says laughing. Busier than he could ever imagine being, freelancing has turned out to be his dream. So two years ago, he left to pursue the dual passions that now make up his life, finally putting his guide’s certificate to its intended use. But the same pent-up feeling eventually took hold. It was a government snow-science gig, and steady work. When he finally got it, he landed a job as an avalanche technician in Glacier National Park. He quit, moved west, and worked towards a ski-guide certificate. After graduating university with a degree in computer science and working as a programmer until he was 25, he wasn’t satisfied. But it took a while.īorn in Iran and raised in Montreal, the calm-spirited overachiever loved skiing more than anything growing up. Today, Ali – a joyful Revelstoke resident and new father – has struck a long-sought balance playing music in the summers and ski guiding in the winters. Listening to him at a music festival, a ski-town bar or by record, you’d never know you were rocking out to a computer programmer-turned-snow-scientist-turned-musician. Like its composer, it’s a walking contradiction.Īt a youthful 40 years old, with his first full-length album in hand, Ali Haeri – who goes by the stage name Al Lee – took the long way ’round to his dreams. Next, his wailing vocal tremolo shores up a bellied tone that undercuts the seriousness of the lyrics, “I’m going to make it big, play on that big stage…” The song doesn’t take itself seriously, but is still masterfully polished. Born of blues, his rhythm is opposingly upbeat. He launches in with deep, damp licks dripping swamp water right out of the Delta.
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