Vintage Vinyl – Carl’s Sons
Carl’s Sons were a lounge duo consisting of Rob and Elmer Stalkie who were a featured attraction at the Ali […]
Vintage Vinyl – Bob Lucier
The Stevie Wonder r&b classic “Too High” might not seem like the most likely candidate for a country music steel […]
Vintage Vinyl – Eugene Amaro
Most of the songs on this 1975 LP by the late Toronto-based tenor saxophonist and flautist Eugene Amaro (who led his […]
Vintage Vinyl – Ray Griff
Vancouver-born Ray Griff has had a very successful career as a songwriter, having penned hits for country artists including but not […]
Vintage Vinyl – SMI
The sum total of information on the internet about hip-hop crew SMI is almost entirely limited to one comment on […]
Vintage Vinyl – The Shakers
The Hamilton power-poppers known as The Shakers may have come and gone without leaving much of a lasting mark on […]
Vintage Vinyl – Sharon Strong
It is 1965. The girl, who is only 16 but already a showbiz pro who has been singing for country […]
Vintage Vinyl – Guido Basso
Trumpeter and flugelhornist Guido Basso was born in Montreal in 1937, apprenticed in several dance bands as a young man, toured throughout North […]
Vintage Vinyl – Renee Martel
Quebecois chanteuse Renee Martel was born in Drummondville in 1947, and over the course of a career that has spanned […]
Vintage Vinyl – The Phil Nimmons Group
Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and educator Phil Nimmons has done pretty much everything it’s possible to do in jazz over the course of […]
Vintage Vinyl – Truck
Straight outta Ingersoll, Ontario, the rock band Truck was originally named Sound Spectrum. Formed in 1966, by the end of the decade they’d […]
Vintage Vinyl – Garnett Ford
Before the keytar-weilding hordes of synth-pop took over in the early ’80s, AOR (Album-Oriented Rock) artists like Ian Thomas, Loverboy […]
Vintage Vinyl – Lost Durangos
This blog describes Vancouver’s Lost Durangos as a cowpunk band, one example of a very ’80s mashup of country and punk […]
Vintage Vinyl – Shirley Field
Country singer/songwriter Shirley Field was born in Armstrong, B.C. and began singing in school operettas and local stampedes at the […]
Vintage Vinyl – Nick Ayoub
Music is the ultimate melting pot. In 1927, a year after the subject of this post was born, Columbia released […]
Vintage Vinyl – Ray Dalan
Outside of these two pages, one of which refers to him as “Reverend” and states that he passed away on April 8th, […]
Vintage Vinyl – Mickey McGivern
Guitarist Mickey McGivern was born in Pembroke, Ontario in 1931 and by the age of 17 he was already on […]