Dive bars and blue collars: Bamford's Honkytonks tour rolls into Cook County

It’s early October, and Gord Bamford is watching surfers try to catch waves in Australia.
The pride of Lacombe, Alberta, isn’t mentioning this fact in his interview to rub it in, but it’s a nice bonus to his two-week tour down under, far from the snow and chill in his home province.
“I’ve actually got citizenship here,” says Bamford, who was born in Australia and lived there for the first few years of his life before being brought back to Canada. “It&rsq