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edition:Paperback
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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Jul 2011
ISBN:9781553658276
publisher: Greystone Books Ltd

Cigar Box Banjo

Notes on Music and Life

by Paul Quarrington, foreword by Roddy Doyle

tagged: composers & musicians, individual composer & musician, peace
Description

Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and musician Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in summer 2009. Looking death in the face, he decided to go out singing, throwing everything he had into his work and demonstrating a creative energy that belied his illness. He performed with his band, recorded two new albums, and completed this eclectic, funny, and moving memoir of a life lived in music and words.

In Cigar Box Banjo, Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth spent playing bass with a cult band, and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. Ranging through rock 'n' roll, the blues, folk, country, and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so profoundly. On stage and in studios from Newfoundland to Nashville, Quarrington celebrates his last year on the planet.

About the Authors

Paul Quarrington


Roddy Doyle

Contributor Notes

Paul Quarrington an acclaimed author, screenwriter and musician, died in January 2010, just days after completing the Cigar Box Banjo manuscript. His most recent novel, The Ravine, was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and he received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his novel King Leary, which was also the victor in “Canada Reads 2008.”

Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels—The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van—are known as The Barrytown Trilogy.

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