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Release Date: 1978

Label: Radio Canada International

Collection featuring songs from the first three albums.

Stringband is a Canadian folk group, formed in 1971 by Bob Bossin and Marie-Lynn Hammond. Their music, whether written by themselves or drawn from traditional sources, reflects the country they live in. On this record, taken from the three albums released by Stringband in Canada, you will hear music with a sense of place; songs that refer to people and places from one side of Canada (Lunenburg) to the other (Vancouver Island).
Bossin, who is also a writer and one-time student radical, writes much of Stringband's material. Marie-Lynn Hammond, with an English-Canadian father and a French-Canadian mother, has always been fascinated by traditional French-Canadian music; her own songs (I Don't Sleep with Strangers, Mrs. Murphy) owe something to both country music and jazz.
In six years, Stringband has appeared in concerts, coffee-houses, night clubs, colleges, high schools, and at folk festivals. Based in Toronto, the group regularly travels to the Maritime provinces, the West Coast, the Yukon and North West Territories, and the Prairies. In 1977, the band made a Canadian government - sponsored visit to Mexico, giving concerts in a number of cities and small towns.
Their relaxed, informal music does indeed have substance - a substance which relates to both Canada's people and Canada's far-flung geography. Stringband, in its low-key home-made, easy-going way, creates music which is, in itself, an embodiment of the best of Canada.
Bob Bossin and Marie-Lynn Hammond both play guitar and banjo, and share the singing. The third basic member of the band is Terry King, who plays fiddle. Two other fiddle platers have been part of Stringband in the past; Jerry Lewycky, who can be heard on Daddy Was a Ballplayer and La Chanson Francaise; and Ben Mink, who took part in the sessions that produced Mr.s Murphy, Le prisonnier de Londres, Le Devidoir and Mic Mac Song.

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