A graduate of Lakehead University, Tim Chorney is a freelance journalist and media researcher for television, newspaper and radio. He is based in Ottawa. Jay Innes holds a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University and has worked as a researcher and reporter for newspapers, radio and television. He is the producer of Secrets in High Places, a television documentary for Stornoway Productions.
With an influx of Appalachian migrants who came looking for work in the 1940s and 1950s, Baltimore found itself populated by some extraordinary mountain musicians and was for a brief time the center of the bluegrass world. Life in Baltimore for these musicians was not easy. There were missed opportunities, personal demons and always the up-hill battle with prejudice against their hillbilly origins. Based upon interviews with legendary players from the golden age of Baltimore bluegrass, this book provides the first in-depth coverage of this transplanted-roots music and its broader influence, detailing the struggles Appalachian musicians faced in a big city that viewed the music they made as the "poorest example of poor man's music.
As Canadians, we hand over a substantial portion of our income to the government in the form of taxes, and we would like to believe that our hard-earned money is being put to good use. But few of us ever try to pinpoint exactly where our tax dollars go once they leave our hands, or to figure out how decisions about public spending are made. Who decides which programs and projects receive funding? How does the decision-making process work? Armed with these questions, Jay Innes and a team of researchers set out to investigate how spending decisions were made for one specific government initiative: the Canada Infrastructure Works Program (CIWP). The researchers interviewed community leaders and businesspeople in various provinces about their experiences with CIWP, and spoke to the politicians and civil servants who administered and implemented the program -- the people who should have been most familiar with the decision-making process. Nevertheless, although three levels of government (federal, provincial and municipal) participated in the program, the researchers could find no one, at any level, who could tell them how and why decisions were made, or even who was responsible for making them! Their findings demonstrate just how little accountability there is in Canadian government today -- a problem that should concern all Canadians who care about how their tax dollars are being spent.
For thirty years, Leftover Salmon has blended musical styles from rock and bluegrass to zydeco and Cajun into an undeniably original sound and forever influenced generations of bands from across the musical spectrum. Emerging from the progressive bluegrass world and coming of age as one the original jam bands, Leftover Salmon rose to become architects of what has become known as Jamgrass—a style in which bluegrass can break free through nontraditional instrumentation and stylistic experimentation. In this book, Tim Newby presents an intimate portrait of Leftover Salmon through its band members, family, friends, former bandmates, managers, and countless musicians. Leftover Salmon was born from the heart and soul of America itself, playing music that reflects the sounds emanating from the Appalachian hills, the streets of New Orleans, the clubs of Chicago, the plains of Texas, and the mountains in their home state of Colorado. Newby reveals Leftover Salmon’s story as one that is crucialto American music and needs to be told now.
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