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It wasn’t long before The Good Brothers were packing Toronto’s fabled El Macombo five nights a week; breaking bar records, attendance records and exhausting determined dancers. Then there were eight straight Juno awards for Best Country Group, and headline gigs at Massey Hall, Roy Thompson Hall, The National Art Centre and the weeks at L.A.’s Universal Amphitheatre with (“their mentor”) Gordon Lightfoot. There was even a self-titled double gold album.
Fast-forward 30 years – and they’re still here. No long breaks for the Goods – they kept making records, and gigged relentlessly. More recently they where honoured by being the 2004 inductees into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame as well as two nominations for Country Group and Roots Artist of the year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. Next year they’re off on tour in Europe, again; this will be their 26th tour on the other side of the Atlantic. They’ve kept the flame burning, and the music going and those determined dancers have never stopped. The 80’s and 90’s came and went, and Canada’s musical soundtrack, through all those years, included The Good Brothers.
Yes, the times have changed - the music business isn't like it used to be, and nor is most of the music. The brave days seem to have vanished, and the sheer joy of making music seems harder to discover. And yet...what's this? The new album by the Good Brothers! One True Thing (voted Canada's number one Independant Album of the Year 2003), as accurate a title as anyone could use.
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| Inducted into the the Hall of Fame, Edmonton, Fall 2004 |
Simple.
Direct.
The sibling harmonies are still there. The fleetness of banjo, guitar, and autoharp is joined by John P. Allen's fiddle, and the guitar and mandolin of Travis Good from The Sadies, representing the next generation of the family.
More than half the songs on One True Thing are written by Brian and Bruce while the others include old classics like "Old Man at the Mill" and a rock song by Quebec's own Michel Pagliaro. It's still country, it's bluegrass, it still works in bars and at folk festivals, and it still gets 'em up dancing at jamboree.
The songs still come straight from their hearts to your tapping toes and the smile on your face.
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