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I need yer submissions for podList 7 the classics

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

podList 7

May long weekend, 2026

podList 7 the classics

Hey, it's jD here.

podList 7 the classics is open for submissions. And I need you to get after it.

Here's the deal if you're new. Six times now, fans from this community have recorded their own covers of Tragically Hip songs and sent them to me.

I sequence the tracks, spin them back to back like a DJ, share a little bit about each performer, and release the whole thing on the podcast feed at subscribe.tthpods.com. Nine to thirteen songs per episode. Every single one of them a real person from this community putting something on the line. Their heart.

Past podLists have had themes — Gord Material, 2000s and Onward, a couple of free-for-alls. The performances have ranged from full band arrangements to stark solo recordings. Acoustic guitars, pianos, voices with nothing underneath them.

If you ever get a chance to go back through the catalogue, do it. Craig Rogers and Yvette Drews on 'Now for Plan A' will stop you cold. Maria King's version of 'The Stranger' is something else entirely. There are dozens more just like them.

podList 7 is subtitled the classics, because ole jD needs to keep you on yer toes. So here goes, one rule: your cover has to come from the early catalogue — the EP through "Day for Night."

That's 1987 to 1995. 'New Orleans Is Sinking,' 'Courage,' 'Blow at High Dough,' 'Nautical Disaster,' 'Fifty Mission Cap,' 'Grace, Too,' 'At the Hundredth Meridian' — that's your pool. Pick the song that means something to you and make it yours.

Any instrument. Any arrangement. Any interpretation. I don't care how you do it. I care that you put something of yourself into it.

Here's how to submit. Send an MP3 to jd@tthpods.com. If you're sending a .wav — and I hope you will — drop it in a WeTransfer, Google Drive, or Dropbox link and send that to the same address. Include your name, where you're from, and the song you covered.

Deadline is April 30th. If you need a little more time, just email me and we'll figure it out.

In the six weeks leading up to May 15th, I'll be dropping the previous podList episodes back into the feed so you can hear exactly what this thing sounds like.

Then on May 15th — the Victoria Day long weekend — podList 7 goes live. Fresh Hip covers for the first cottage weekend of the summer. That's the plan.

Six podLists in. This community keeps showing up.

Don't make me wait on you.

— jD

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About jD Hey, it's jD. I'm a Toronto-based podcaster, creative producer, and lifelong Tragically Hip superfan who's been building The Tragically Hip Podcast Series since 2018. What started as a track-by-track deep dive into the band's catalogue has grown into a six-show network that's raised over $35,000 for the Downie Wenjack Fund, The Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research, and CAMH. I'm not a journalist, I'm not a critic — I'm a fan who loves this band as much as you do, and everything I make comes from that place. About Yer Letter Yer Letter is the monthly newsletter for the TTH Pods community — written for fans, by a fan. It's where I share what's happening across the network, what's coming up, and the kind of Hip conversation that doesn't fit anywhere else. No fluff, no filler — just the stuff worth reading. If you've found your way here, you already know why the Hip matters. This is just another place we get to talk about it.

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