DESCRIPTION:
The title track from Blair's 2004 album, this is a new music video (summer 2015). Lots of fun to make, the video was directed, shot and edited by Cohen Bury, who met Blair at Seneca College in 2014.

The recording features Craig Northey (guitars), Doug Elliott (bass), and Pat Steward (drums and percussion) from the Odds, Canada's pop heroes from Vancouver (see "Someone Who's Cool" and/or "Eat My Brain"!). Keyboards are played (brilliantly) by Simon Kendall, ex-Doug & the Slugs (and co-writer of all those Slug hits from the 80s!).

Blair often says that the song is a commentary on his time in the hit-making machinery of the music business. "Well, maybe I should say 'sort-of hit-making machinery,'" says Blair. "I'm talking about the Canadian music biz, after all...Anyway, some bad decisions, some bad luck, and probably a few other factors led to me not exactly zooming to 'the toppermost of the poppermost', as John Lennon would've put it , and for a time, I had deep angst about that. So I did what I always do: I wrote a song!"

"Could've Been King" was recorded by Colin Nairne, who was assisted by Mike Rogerson, at Baker Street Studios in North Vancouver, November 2003. It was mixed in Toronto at Canterbury Music by Jeremy Darby in January 2004.