Fred Eaglesmith January 30, 2009

Canadian Fred Eaglesmith's music has been described by reviewers as a "blend of aching country and barroom rock" and a "mixture of hard-edged honky-tonk balanced between rock'n'roll and early '60s country music." His dynamic live shows are "exactly like the sort of music you dream of hearing in some crowded, hot, beery bar near closing time… a truly timeless brand of primitive rock'n'roll," says Amazon.com.

Eaglesmith is also known as a between-song raconteur whose pointed and illuminating storytelling and comedic skills are as sharp as his songwriting. Eaglesmith writes "songs that rattle around in your head like empty beer bottles in the back of a pickup," as one critic puts it. He has won a Juno Award — the Canadian Grammy — for Best Roots & Traditional Album and a Canadian Independent Music Award for Folk/Roots Album of the Year. "It is not an overstatement to say that Eaglesmith is one of the finest songwriters in this country," says the New Brunswick Daily Gleaner. "His canon of well over 1000 songs is stunning."

His latest album and 16th release, Milly's Cafe, hit the Top 10 on the Americana chart, and he is also the only Canadian to have ever written a #1 song on the bluegrass charts. Other songwriters that have recorded Eaglesmith songs amidst their own include The Cowboy Junkies, Chris Knight, Kasey Chambers, Todd Snider and Dar Williams. The artists featured on the album The Songs of Fred Eaglesmith: A Tribute include Bill & Kasey Chambers, Mary Gauthier, Slaid Cleaves, Robbie Fulks, Jay Bennett, Gurf Morlix and Rex Hobart, and Eaglesmith has also inspired two albums of musical tributes from his fans. Martin Scorsese has used his songs and James Caan included an Eaglesmith number in his movie Viva Los Nowhere.
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