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Patrick Ballantyne
Patrick Ballantyne is a Canadian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known for co-writing hit songs for Big Sugar, notably "If I Had My Way". He has also released five successful solo albums. Life Ballantyne was born in Windsor, ON, where he taught himself to play guitar and began writing songs at age 14. He also grew up with Gordie Johnson. While Johnson went on to found Big Sugar, Ballantyne became a lawyer, beginning as a prosecutor, then moving to senior positions with KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Toronto Stock Exchange. He is now the CEO of the Registered Insurance Brokers of Ontario. Throughout his corporate career, however, he simultaneously stayed very active in music. Ballantyne and Johnson started writing music in the 1980s, when they were still in high school. In 1985, he released his own EP, ''A Gentleman Lost in the Wild''. But he and Johnson continued to write together, and their collaborations appear on all of Big Sugar's albums. Ballantyne also perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 census, making it the third-most populated city in Southwestern Ontario, after London and Kitchener. The Detroit–Windsor urban area is North America's most populous trans-border conurbation, and the Ambassador Bridge border crossing is the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada–United States border. Windsor is a major contributor to Canada's automotive industry and is culturally diverse. Known as the "Automotive Capital of Canada", Windsor's industrial and manufacturing heritage is responsible for how the city has developed through the years. History Early settlement At the time when the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordie Johnson
Gordie Johnson (born 22 May 1964) is a Canadian musician, best known as the front man for the blues/reggae rock band Big Sugar, Austin-based blues/gospel band Sit Down Servant, and southern rock band Grady. Johnson is a Grammy nominated producer, mixer and session musician. He has produced, or mixed, albums and tracks for artists such as Gov't Mule, Warren Haynes, The Glorious Sons, Taj Mahal, Bushwick Bill, Toots Hibbert, Sarah Slean, The Trews, Joel Plaskett Emergency, The Respectables, Tim Chaisson, Len, Reel Big Fish, Chris Duarte, Caroline Neron, Meredith Shaw, as well as playing and/or recording with Chris Robinson, Rich Robinson, Colin James, Default, Honky, Len, Molly Johnson, Jonny Lang and Double Trouble, Ashley MacIsaac, the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, and Big Rude Jake. Biography Johnson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, of Ukrainian descent, and grew up in Windsor, Ontario, starting his professional music career while still in high school as he fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grady (band)
Grady is a Southern rock band based in Austin, Texas. History Grady originally consisted of Canadian vocalist and guitarist Gordie Johnson (known as Grady Johnson as part of the band), Canadian bass guitarist "Big" Ben Richardson, and Chris Layton on drums. Prior to Grady, Johnson was the frontman for Big Sugar (band), Big Sugar, Layton was the drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble (band), Double Trouble rhythm section, and Richardson was with The Jeff Healey Band and The Phantoms in Toronto. Grady often plays at The Continental Club in Austin, did an eight stop Canadian tour in March 2005, and appeared at the University of Regina to play a free show in September 2005. This was followed up by a full-length album called ''Y.U. So Shady?''. The band released "Hammer In My Hand" as a single from the album, which was a moderate hit on Canadian radio, peaking at #14 on Canada's Rock chart in 2005. After the issue of a second album, A'' Cup of Cold Poison'', Grady made two e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Of Thieves (album)
''Den of Thieves'' is the second full-length album by Canadian rock band The Trews. It was released in 2005 on Epic Records, and peaked at number 6 on the Canadian Albums Chart. The first single from this album was "So She's Leaving", and it was followed by "Yearning", "Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me" and "I Can't Say". The album was certified Gold (50,000 copies) by the CRIA A ''cria'' (pronounced ) is a juvenile llama, alpaca, vicuña, or guanaco. Etymology The term comes from the Spanish word cría, meaning "baby". Its false cognate in English, ''crya'' (pronounced ), was coined by British sailors who explored C ... in January 2006. Track listing #"Fire Up Ahead" – 3:01 #"Makin' Sunshine" – 3:47 #"Cry" – 3:41 #"Sweetness" – 3:33 #"I Can't Say" – 4:19 #"So She's Leaving" – 3:08 #"Yearning" – 3:58 #"The Pearl (More Than Everything)" – 4:50 #"Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me" – 4:18 #"Ana & Mia" – 3:20 #"Naked" – 4:00 #"Montebello Park" – 3:58 #"Got My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers And Sisters, Are You Ready?
''Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?'' is the fifth album by Big Sugar, It was released concurrently with a separate album containing French versions of the same songs, ''Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?''. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2002 Juno Awards. ''Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?'' was certified Gold (50,000 units) by the CRIA in August 2003. Track listing # "Red Rover" – 4:57 # "Nashville Grass" – 3:49 # "She Left Ashes" – 4:04 # "Nicotina (She's All That)" – 4:02 # "So Not Over" – 3:33 # "Butterball" – 4:06 # "Bump on the Head" – 4:12 # "Lost and Found" – 3:55 # "Bad Old Days" – 3:36 # "We Could Live" – 4:10 # "Pretty Bird" – 3:12 # "All Hell for a Basement" – 4:00 # "O Canada" – 2:17 Year-end charts ''Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?'' ''Brothers and Sisters, Êtes Vous Ready?'', released in 2001, contains French versions of songs from ''Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?'', along with four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heated (Big Sugar Album)
''Heated'' is the fourth album by Canadian rock band Big Sugar, released on the A&M Records label. It was released in the United States in 1999 on Capricorn Records with an alternate album cover. The US release also includes the hit track " Diggin' a Hole" from ''Hemi-Vision'', which was not released in the US. The album was certified Platinum in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies. The album features a cover of Bachman–Turner Overdrive Bachman–Turner Overdrive, often abbreviated BTO, were a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, founded by Randy Bachman, Robbie Bachman and Fred Turner in 1973. Their 1970s catalogue included five top-40 albums and six US top-40 sing ...'s " Let it Ride". Track listing Canadian release: #"Where I Stand" – 5:58 #" Better Get Used to It" – 2:55 #" The Scene" – 4:15 #"Cop a Plea" – 4:55 #"Girl Watcher" – 4:09 #"Round & Round" – 4:43 #"Kickin' Stones" – 5:14 #"Hammer In My Hand" - 4:23 #"100 Cigarettes" – 4:03 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemi-Vision
''Hemi-Vision'' is the third album by Canadian blues-rock band Big Sugar. The album was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 1997 Juno Awards. The singles from the album were " Diggin' a Hole", "If I Had My Way", "Gone For Good", and " Up Baby". The band also recorded a French language version of " Up Baby", entitled "Ouvres-toi Bébé", for radio airplay in Quebec (see also '' Chauffe à bloc''). Background The album was recorded in six weeks at Presence Studios and Phase One Studios. According to Gordie Johnson, this was the first album that the band had recorded with an adequate budget, having $65,000 Canadian at their disposal. Johnson collaborated with several other songwriters for this album. "Gone for Good", "Empty Head", and "If I Had My Way" were co-written with Patrick Ballantyne; "La Stralla" and "Skull King" with Andrew Whiteman; "Tired All The Time" with bandmate Kelly Hoppe; "Opem Up Baby" with Dan Gallagher; "Tommy Johnson" with Dave Wall; and " Diggin' a Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Depression (magazine)
''No Depression'' is a quarterly roots music journal with a concurrent online publication. In print, ''No Depression'' is an ad-free publication focused on long-form music reporting and deep analysis that ties contemporary artists with the long chain of American roots music. In April 2020, ''No Depression'' introduced digital versions of their print journal. While the print journal remains ad-free, the digital versions include roots-music-related advertisements. Its journal contributors include roots music artists as well as professional critics and reporters, photographers, illustrators, and artists. Its online edition was largely crowd-sourced by contributions from a combination of writers and fans, regular columnists and staff reviewers. In 2019, the online version of the publication moved to align more with its print version variant by no longer accepting community posts. History ''No Depression'' was launched in September 1995 (as a quarterly) by co-editors/co-founders Grant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 East Coast Music Awards
The 2013 East Coast Music Awards were held on March 10, 2013, to honour achievements in Atlantic Canada's music industry in 2012."Folk singer Rose Cousins wins 3 East Coast Music Awards" , March 11, 2013. The ceremony, the event's 25th anniversary, was held at the Cunard Centre in Halifax, , and was hosted by singer-songwriters |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meridian Arts Centre
The Meridian Arts Centre is a performing arts venue in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on October 16, 1993, as the North York Performing Arts Centre and was designed by Canadian architect Eberhard Zeidler for musicals, theatre productions and other performing arts. At opening, North York awarded management of the centre to Livent, which sold the naming rights in 1994 to Ford Motor Company of Canada. It became the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts. Later, it debranded as the Toronto Centre for the Arts. In January 2019, TO Live (formerly Civic Theatres Toronto, a City of Toronto agency which manages and operates the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto Centre for the Arts, and the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts) announced a new sponsorship deal with Meridian Credit Union, which saw the theatre rebranded in September 2019. Facility The building originally housed three theatres: the Main Stage Theatre with 1,727 seats, the George Weston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin MacDonald (musician)
The Trews are a Canadian rock band from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, consisting of vocalist Colin MacDonald, guitarist John-Angus MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek, and drummer Chris Gormley. The band is currently based in Hamilton, Ontario. From their formation in 1997 to 2016, The Trews were among the top 150 best-selling Canadian artists in Canada and among the top 40 selling Canadian bands in Canada. History The band started their career with the name ''One I'd Trouser'', a line taken from a song in ''Monty Python's The Meaning of Life''. They changed their name to ''Trouser'' and eventually ''The Trews''. They released an EP as ''One I'd Trouser'', and a second EP under the name ''The Trews''. In the early summer of 2002 the band entered Rocksearch, a high-profile contest that is held annually by CHTZ-FM, a St. Catharines (Southern Ontario) rock radio station. Winning the contest would prove to be their big break as they soon landed a recording contract with Bumstead Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
