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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...
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Guitar Nut Compensation
The Physics and Mechanics of Setting Up a Guitar to Play in Tune
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Every serious guitar player searches for two important things: a guitar that plays in tune and the magic tone. With countless videos and websites dedicated to these facets, it’s information overload—not to mention the complicated math formulas...
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The Beatles in Los Angeles
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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The Beatles in Los Angeles takes you past the velvet ropes and inside the mansion gates where The Beatles loved, explored, and experienced all the adventures and mystical chaos that swirls around LA like no other city. With brand new interviews...
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Bad Gardening Advice
Winnipeg Music Reviews From Artist Redacted to Zrada
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What do reviews of the Winnipeg music scene have in common with crappy advice on growing a garden? The worm. This book’s worm is Steve Schmolaris, a man of discerning taste with over forty-five years of servitude and dedication to Winnipeg music...
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My Amazing Hands
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MY AMAZING HANDS HAVE DONE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS! I will tell you about . . . — some extraordinary people My Amazing Hands have met . . . Wayne Gretzky, Vince Gill, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Elliott, and 30 more! — extraordinary places they have been:...
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Bach's Sonic Tapestry
The Well-Tempered Clavier of 1722
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There is a reason why good teachers insist their pupils study Bach. Every note counts as with no other composer. I’ve played some Bach in my time . . . but it is fair to say that he has never been front and centre in my repertoire. Until now . ....
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Beach Music
Stories of a Barbershop Quartet
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Beach Music: Stories of a Barbershop Quartet is a collection of fun, memorable, and entertaining vignettes from the fifteen years author André Brillaud has been a member of the barbershop quartet, Beach Music. The group “sang on beaches, boats,...
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Saskatchewan Stories
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“You can go home again, but it may be better to stick with memories.” Award-winning author, editor and broadcaster, Lyndon Grove, looks back at his early years in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in this whimsical set of essays. With humour and a dash of...
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Minor Gods and Major Scoundrels
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poetry that fails to cock a snook at human folly and is insufficiently outraged with the stupidly cruel and the corrupt is far too soft and best left unwritten and poetry marinated only in vinegar with neither levity nor sweetness is much too...
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Promo Monkey: My Life as a BellHop in the Waldorf Hysteria
Friends and Enemas
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“…to the Creative Spirit that let me in, and to all my Music Buds who took the journey back then, and by guile, gall, hand, heart, and mind, sound or otherwise, had the will, persistence, tenacity, and desire to succeed back when it was still...
