Paul Langois talks about the band's success and influence on Canadian music.
The Tragically Hip can add one more to their growing list of accolades.
The legendary Juno-award-winning Canadian rock band from Kingston was recently named as one of this year's inductees to the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
One of the group's guitarists, Paul Langois, says it is a big honour for the band.
He tells FLY FM's Reid and Ben his experience in writing songs with the rest of the band adding it was hard to write one while recording an album.
Even though the band's lead singer, the late Gord Downie, composed most of the words to the Tragically Hip's biggest songs, the music and lyrics has always been credited to all five members of the band.
Langois says that was something they had settled on in the early stages of their musical career.
The Hip's songs have been known for their Canadian references often dropping names of towns (Bobcaygeon), landmarks (Millhaven Correctional Facility) and people (Bill Barilko) into their music.
Langois says it was something they became comfortable in doing.
The Tragically Hip will be inducted this September in a ceremony in Toronto. Joining them will be Mike Reno and Paul Dean of Loverboy, Leslie Feist, and Roch Voisine.
Story by Ken Hashizume
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