Anyway, why have I never heard of this guy? Sounds like he's a very influential Canadian folk singer with about nine albums to his name and a fairly successful career leading up to a very untimely death in 1983.
Well, he at least had a lock on the Canadian maritime folk song market, which has GOT to be huge, right? Reminds me a bit of the Knights of the Round Table song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
But note the mostly empty booze bottle on the table and you get even more insight into what makes these guys tick.
Whether this is your cup of meat or not, you gotta admit they are pretty damn into it. Enjoy:
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I saw Stan back in 1981. The guy was a poet and would have been a major star had he lived. The guys around the table with him are members of an Irish group called Ryan's Fancy.
Canadian province name-check alert!
I grew up in Nova Scotia. Stan was from Ontario, though he had family in Canso, NS. If you want to treat yourself to some great music, look him up online. I can't begin to tell you how excellent his stuff was. This tune, while OK, is not representative of his best material.It comes from his first LP (Fogarty's Cove) which has far better songs on it than this.
Isorski - Did you see Neil Young on Hope for Haiti and Conan's last show? He is great.
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