Garnet Rogers

Garnet Rogers
Background information
Born	May 1955
Occupation(s)	Singer-Songwriter
Instrument(s)	Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals
Label(s)	Snow Goose
Website	http://www.garnetrogers.com

Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk musician Stan 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 from blues, 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 humour. 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, and Archie 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" by Ian Robb on his album From Different Angels.

Garnet lives on a farm in rural Ontario, where his wife raises champion thoroughbreds.

Solo CDs

• Garnet Rogers 1984
• The Outside Track 1985
• Speaking Softly in the Dark 1988
• Small Victories 1990
• At A High Window 1992
• Summer Lightning Live album 1994
• Night Drive 1996
• Sparrow's Wing 1999
• Firefly 2001
• Shining Thing 2004
• Get a Witness Live album 2007

Other CDs

• Off the Map with Archie Fisher 1986
• Doug McArthur with Garnet Rogers 1989
• Live at the Black Sheep 2003

External links

• Garnet Rogers' official webpage

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