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<\/a>Workman says that he feels like his fans who have been on board from the beginning have had to put up with a lot from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI frustrate myself, and I\u2019m sure I frustrate them,\u201d says Workman. \u201cBut with this new record, I knew that I almost needed to rewrite the contract with my fans and say, \u2018I know I\u2019ve been screwing around the last couple of records, but this is just a reminder that songwriting and great singing are still at the core.\u2019 I wanted to re-establish what it is that I do well, and re-establish the terms on which my fans and I have been involved, and evolved with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Workman says that it\u2019s a part of his character that he\u2019s chronically dissatisfied with everything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBehind the scenes, when I release a record or write a song, I can kind of glean an emotional benefit from it for a short time,\u201d says Workman. \u201cFor instance, on the new record, when I wrote \u2018Battlefords,\u2019 I knew right from the beginning that it was one of the best songs that I had ever written, but I think that excitement might have lasted for a day and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n Workman and his band will be in town to promote his latest solo album, Median Age Wasteland<\/i>, this month; it\u2019s perhaps his best and most complete LP to date. Over the years, Workman has had his hands in a lot of different things\u2014he\u2019s released 16 solo albums, found chart success as a member of Mounties (with ex-Victorian Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat fame), and produced recordings for some of the biggest acts in Canada\u2014but he says his career hasn\u2019t always unfolded as planned.<\/p>\n \u201cFor the bulk of my youth and adolescence, my whole goal was to become a celebrated session drummer, and that was everything for me,\u201d says Workman. \u201cMy years in high school, I was practicing three to five hours a day. I had reached an agreement with my family, because the drum set was in the same room as the TV, that when the family was sitting around watching TV I would only play during commercials. I was obsessive.\u201d<\/p>\n Workman has played drums on all of his records, but it wasn\u2019t until Thrash Rock Legacy<\/i>, Mounties\u2019 2014 debut, that he let the world know just how good he is behind the kit.<\/p>\n \u201cDrums was somewhat of a secret for me because I had put thousands and thousands of hours into it, and I was playing at a professional level when I was a teenager, but it didn\u2019t pan out,\u201d says Workman. \u201cThe songwriting thing just kind of took off. I left rural Ontario and moved to Toronto to become a drummer, but that was put on the backburner because my first record made a ripple and all of the sudden I was this solo guy, which wasn\u2019t really my plan.\u201d<\/p>\n