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Hour interviews singer-songwriter Angela Desveaux . Hour: What is the underlying story/theme behind the new record? Angela Desveaux: The title track, The Mighty Ship, is a song about my grandmother losing her first husband at sea. She was quite young and had a three-month-old baby at the time. These tragic events weren’t uncommon in those parts of Nova Scotia, a small coastal village called Cheticamp, and as a result, it makes the people stronger... I think a lot of the tunes on this album reflect situations that put the human heart to the test. MiX offers an autumn music playlist. The Globe and Mail profiles Airborne Toxic Event . Jollett calls the 10 songs a carefully ordered series of "pits and valleys and revelations." The literal telling of tough tales - every story on the record is as it happened, not just Sometime - was in part inspired by Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth, whose works Jollett read while holed up in a desert ranch workin...