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Sometimes a straight line isn't the best way to get to where you want think you want to be. "Sometimes pain is heaven sent, and beautiful is chipped and bent". At least that's the way Rob Lamothe sees it. A line in one of his new songs, has him giving thanks to “every glorious mistake that brought him here”, indicating a depth of personal acceptance that is not easily or painlessly reached. His new CD 'Long Lazy Curve' might be a story about a man growing up and taking a long time to do it, traveling curving, winding roads, following his instincts, his music and sometimes trouble, making mistakes and finding redemption, not the least of all in his own heart. Rob lives in a small town in southwestern Ontario now, surrounded by farmland and Lake Erie. It's a long, long way from the sunny technicolour beach town of La Jolla in Southern California where he first tried to grow up. It seems like a long way away too from gritty, grey Hamilton in 1994, where he arrived in th...