
by John Holmes (a new contributor to the blog. -ed. ) After the 2006 release of Knows What You Need with rabble-rousing backing band The River, things started to go downhill very quickly for Jon-Rae Fletcher . That record was a no-holds-barred celebration of sex, alcohol and living the high life; but after touring heavily to support it, his excesses started to catch up with him. Heavily in debt and struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction, Fletcher simply disappeared from his Toronto home and its surrounding music scene, surfacing [...]