- Garnet Rogers
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URL=http://www.garnetrogers.comGarnet Rogers (
1955 – ) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musicianStan Rogers , and arranging Stan's music.Since Stan Rogers' death in
1983 , Garnet Rogers has pursued his own career. While his brother's style of writing was more traditional and often based on Canadian Maritime styles, Garnet's style is more modern, utilizing influences fromBlues , Rock, Country/Bluegrass, and Classical.Rogers' instruments include the guitar, mandolin, violin and flute. In live performances, he usually sits beside a guitar rack that includes three vintage Gibson acoustic guitars, a National guitar, a Fender electric guitar and even an electric, twelve-string mandolin-like guitar.
His songs include "The Outside Track", "All That Is", "Sleeping Buffalo", "Night Drive", "Under The Summer Moonlight", "Summer Lightning", "Small Victories", and "Frankie and Johnny". They range from slices of life to mild social commentary and humor. His humour is also seen in his on-stage banter between songs, which is mostly unrecorded, except for a couple of interludes on his brother's posthumous album, "Home in Halifax". In addition, Garnet has covered other folk artists' work, including
Roy Forbes ' (Bim's) "Woh Me", andArchie Fisher 's "The Final Trawl". His list of collaborators include Doug McArthur and Doug Long.It is known that Garnet is lousy at making homemade
beer , as is retold in the song "Garnet's Homemade Beer ", a parody of Stan's "Barrett's Privateers " byIan Robb on his album "From Different Angels".Garnet lives on a farm in rural
Ontario , where his wife raises champion thoroughbreds.olo CDs
* "Garnet Rogers" 1984
* "The Outside Track" 1985
* "Speaking Softly in the Dark" 1988
* "Small Victories" 1990
* "Summer Lightning" 1994
* "Night Drive" 1996
* "Sparrow's wing" 1999
* "Firefly" 2001
* "Shining thing" 2004
* "Get a witness" 2007Other CDs
* "Off the Map" with
Archie Fisher 1986
* "Doug McArthur with Garnet Rogers" 1989
* "Live at the Black Sheep " 2003External links
* [http://www.garnetrogers.com/ Garnet Rogers' official webpage]
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