Happy heavenly birthday to Stompin’ Tom Connors, the man who made it his mission to write and sing songs about all the people and places (or least as many of them as he could in his lifetime) that make up the great vastness that is Canada. In many ways, Connors was our Woody Guthrie: a voice for loggers, miners, truckers and ordinary Canadians. I once got to interview the Stomper. It was 1990 and Connors was embarking on his first tour in 13 years on the condition that there were to be no radio presenters and no interviews given to the media, which he felt had trivialized his crusade to Canadianize the country's airwaves and its music industry. But at the first stop, a ...
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