Handsome Ned

Posted by Gary LeDrew Monday, February 1, 2010 0 comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUn_BTTRkocendofvid
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 Handsome Ned Used to Play in the bar. Great Guy Tragic Loss
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Myrna Lorrie

Posted by LeDrew Wednesday, January 27, 2010 0 comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzlGPwww7Z0endofvid
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Myrna Lorrie (b. Lorraine Petrunka, August 6, 1940, Cloud Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian country singer.
Lorrie first sang publicly at age 12 on Fort William radio station CKPR. At age 14 she recorded the song "Are You Mine" with Buddy DuVall, which was released on Abbott Records. The song became a hit in both Canada and the United States; it reached #6 on the US Country Singles chart in 1955.[1] She then toured North America with Hank Snow.
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Kid Bastien

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnSexplnBQQendofvid
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 A look around Grossmans
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David Wilcox,

Posted by LeDrew Wednesday, May 27, 2009 0 comments

blues guitarist, Ontario - 2001 - started out in Yorkville in The Gangrene Boys bluegrass band before becoming a rock 'n blues performer - has recorded a dozen albums of original blues infested material for major labels

Sneezy Waters,

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musician, Ontario - 1998 - JM Hodgeson from Ottawa - best known for his legendary performances of Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave - was member of The Children with Bruce Cockburn in the mid-1960s

Valdy,

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singer/songwriter - British Columbia - 2008 - Ottawa-born as Daldmar Horsdal, he went on to become an iconic figure on the fledgling Canadian music scene in the 1970s. His Valdy & the Hometown Band recording of 1976 is a classic.

Brent Titcomb,

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singer/songwriter, Ontario - 2001 - was member of 3s a Crowd and went on to write and perform solo - many recordings to his credit - composed Tibetan Bells and many other great songs - father of Liam Titcomb