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<p>"Urge for Going" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook.<br></p><p>Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by immersing themselves in the American and British forms of blues, folk, country, and their bastard offspring, rock and roll, traces of Canadian sensibilities were never far beneath the surface of the eventual end product.<br></p><p>What were these sensibilities, and why did they transfer so well outside Canada? With each passing decade, a clear picture eventually emerged of what Canadian songwriters were contributing to popular music, and subsequently passing on to fellow artists, both within Canada and around the world. Just as Hank Snow became a giant in country music, Ian &amp; Sylvia and Gordon Lightfoot became crucial components of the folk revival. In the folk-rock boom that followed in the late '60s, songs by The Band and Leonard Cohen were instant standards, while during

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Author

Jason Schneider

Publisher

Essays on Canadian Writing Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770906723

Category

nonfiction