Coffee with the Dog EP111 - Edison Rupert

The Ottawa singer-guitarist’s latest release narrates the empty, anonymous existence of a homeless person with a plain-voiced candour that rings true. As it should. “Ticket To A Place is about a real-life experience I had more than 15 years ago,” Rupert says. “I saw a homeless man lying in the middle of the road with the traffic stopped in front of him. People were just watching from the sidewalk, and I went over to him and got him up and onto the sidewalk where I asked if he was OK, and in the end, he just wanted someone to care.”

The experience struck him as a reminder to not let his compassion get diluted and desensitized by the overflow of homeless people in downtown Ottawa. This is perhaps why he chose to tell half the song’s tale in the first person — to put himself directly in a homeless person’s shoes, to live the experience through song. “I was reminded to keep my kindness towards people no matter who they are,” he said.

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