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Echoes from the Pit
Ottawa's Heavy Metal Underground, 1980-1995
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Before the convenience of the internet, accessing music wasn’t for the faint of heart: fans waited for their favourite songs to come on the radio so they could record them on cassette tapes, made sure they were home to watch genre-specific video...
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Left Unread
The Stories Behind the Songs of Noel Carol
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Left Unread: The Stories Behind the Songs of Noel Carol is the poignant and inspirational life story of Noel Carol, narrated by eh scharpe a.k.a. b phlatt, as told through the lens of a lifetime of songs he has written. Growing up in rural...
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Kuen
Resilience on Three Continents
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A piano scholarship transports sixteen-year-old Kuen from her home in Hong Kong to the Royal Academy of Music in London. Seven years later, the shy student marries a Malaysian-born Chinese man, and the couple returns to Asia. The lustre of Kuen’s...
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Waking From A Seductive Fantasy
An Enticing World of Love, Murder, and the Supernatural
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Waking From A Seductive Fantasy chronicles Lana Gutman’s cathartic journey following the devastating loss of her spouse, celebrated musician David Maestro, who died by suicide. Lana’s husband was a popular, admired entertainer notorious for his...
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Canada, Canadians and The Beatles
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THE STORY OF THE BEATLES IS THE STORY OF CANADA AND CANADIANS With all that has been written about the world’s greatest band, you are holding something new! Finally, a book that offers a well-paced, entertaining look at Canada’s proud, oversized...
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In A Life
A memoir peppered with stories of a lucky life in music and Bum Ticker adventures
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Steve Goldberger has been a working musician and recording artist for fifty-plus years. In his book In a Life: A Memoir Peppered with Stories of a Lucky Life in Music and Bum Ticker Adventures, Steve shares his personal stories from being in a...
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Magic In The Music
The C-Weed Band Story
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In the 1980s, Manitoba country-rock group The C-Weed Band scored a half dozen Top Ten hits on the country music charts beginning with their #1 hit single "Evangeline". As an Indigenous band, they broke ground for other Indigenous artists on the...
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You Did What?
The Unusual Musical Odyssey of Burl Ronald Brinnon
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At the fresh age of fifteen, Ron Brinnon launches his professional saxophone career and plays gigs that land him amid a hotbed of Russian missiles, an FBI chase, and a levitation session with Depak Chopra. Performing for greats like Desi Arnaz,...
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Solidarity Forever
The Art and Soul of Stevie Van Zandt
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Solidarity Forever is the definitive account of the musical journey of the music legend of Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, and anti-apartheid project Sun City fame, Little Steven Van Zandt. Following Van Zandt’s...
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Journeys to the Bandstand
Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver
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What I didn’t know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad...
