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The great big sea biography sampler

          Group Members: Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett, Kris MacFarlane, Sean McCann, Murray Foster.!

          From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a lyrical and captivating musical memoir about growing up in the tiny fishing village of Petty Harbour.

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          With an introduction by Hughes' award-winning biographer, this memoir is "excellent reading .

          . . remarkable as a self portrait and a record" (New York Times).
          Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade—Harlem and Paris.

          Great Big Sea ; Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, active from under the name Rankin Street, and then until as Great Big Sea.

        1. Great Big Sea ; Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, active from under the name Rankin Street, and then until as Great Big Sea.
        2. SHANTY SAMPLER.
        3. Group Members: Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett, Kris MacFarlane, Sean McCann, Murray Foster.
        4. Bob Hallett has always been an enigma in the Great Big Sea band.
        5. In Part 1 below, Doyle discusses breaking new ground in the early GBS days, producing an album during his honeymoon, and enduring protracted trips to Costco.

          6. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet—at the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
          Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best—simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer .

          . . Mark Twain."
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