The Tragically Hip’s Gord Sinclair has recorded one of the band’s classic bootlegs for charity.
Sinclair wrote “Get Back Again” more than 30 years ago and although The Hip performed it at early gigs, it was never included on an album.
The bassist told Gregory Strong of The Canadian Press that the song's message can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We will get back again to some kind of normal and we will endure with a little bit of faith," said Sinclair. “That's really what the song is about. That's why it's seeing the light of day now.”
The track, with Sinclair providing vocals (The Hip’s frontman Gord Downie died in 2017 of brain cancer), was recorded last November in Kingston, Ont.
Proceeds from the song will benefit the Kingston Food Bank and the Unison Benevolent Fund.
“You can give in to the panic of the moment and let it overcome you or you can trust that goodness will endure and that we will get back again,” Sinclair told CP. “And that is basically what the song is all about. That our better selves will win out in the end.”