‘It wasn’t my time, but I definitely wish it was:’ Calgary’s yacht-pop singer-songwriter reaches back to her parents’ record collection for sophomore EP

It was the song If This is It, the 1983 hit from American rockers Huey Lewis and the News. Williams’ powerful vocals don’t sound much like Lewis’s average-dude, bar-band singing, of course, but the musicians and producers Spencer Cheyne and Justin Kudding were able to capture a decidedly 1980s laid-back groove, reproducing the era’s guitar tones and even a wailing sax solo for the song’s fadeout. Read More