English born/Canadian raised singer/songwriter David Wiffen has seen a renaissance in the last year. In July 2014, the US Water label issued his criminally overlooked 1971 eponymous LP as an expanded CD with four previously unreleased tracks. Then, in February this year, True North in Canada brought out Songs From The Lost & Found, an eagerly awaited collection of 17 previously unreleased recordings drawing on his post Coast to Coast Fever LP period.
After making a rare public appearance at Hugh’s Room in Toronto on 9 April for a celebration of his work, and featuring artists as diverse as The Cowboy Junkies, Liam Titcomb and Lost and Profound, Wiffen caught up with longstanding fan Nick Warburton: