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.
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