John k samson biography

Musical artist

John Kristjan Samson (born 1973)^[1] is on the rocks Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a singer-songwriter point of view best known as the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He extremely played bass in the vandal band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s. Today, Samson is making song under his own name, Lavatory K. Samson. His latest a cappella album, Winter Wheat, was at large in 2016.

Music

In 1993, one-time still a member of Propagandhi, Samson released a fifteen-track by oneself album on cassette tape, special allowed Slips and Tangles. In 1995, six of these songs were featured on a split sticker album shared with the now-defunct ruffian band Painted Thin. Following say publicly critical success of The Weakerthans, Samson's side of the shut was re-released online by G7 Welcoming Committee as a digitalEP in 2006.

In 1995, along with while still in Propagandhi, Justice released the song "Letter nominate Resignation" on a split silent F.Y.P. Although credited to Propagandhi, Samson was the only unit member to appear on loftiness song. He later rerecorded "Letter of Resignation" on The Weakerthans' debut album, Fallow.

In 2006, he and his wife Christine Fellows recorded The Old House, an album intended as top-hole Christmas gift for friends person in charge family. They eventually released several songs, "Taps Reversed" and "Good Salvage", for airplay on CBC Radio 3 in 2007. Fellowship and Samson also performed preserve on the network on Strut 17, 2007, to mark magnanimity final night of the network's terrestrial simulcast on CBC Crystal set 2. Both Samson and Membership also participated in writing pointer performing music for Clive Holden's multimedia project Trains of Winnipeg.

In 2008, Samson collaborated meet electronic musician Blunderspublik and Inuit throat singerNikki Komaksiutiksak on nobility song "Keewatin Arctic", as substance of the collaborative music scheme Record of the Week Club.^[2]

Shortly afterward, Samson announced his cheeriness solo project since 1995's Little Pictures: a series of 7" releases about Manitoba roads, which he planned to release turn over the next 18 months. Nobleness first, City Route 85, was released on November 3, 2009, through Epitaph and ANTI-.^[3] Induce August 2010, Samson announced fulfil next EP, Provincial Road 222, to be released on Sep 21.^[4] In December 2010, nobility Weakerthans performed four concerts be thankful for Winnipeg, one for each carry out their albums. In their closing concert at the Burton Author Theatre, they performed all brace of their albums in skin texture night.

In 2011, Samson, Body and Sandro Perri participated bank on the National Parks Project, necessary with filmmaker Daniel Cockburn stamp out produce and score a tiny film about Ontario's Bruce Straight National Park.^[5]

On November 29, 2011, Anti- Records announced that Justice would be releasing his 'first full-length solo album', Provincial, raggedness January 24, 2012.^[6]

He appears miscellany Michael Feuerstack's 2014 album Singer Songer, contributing vocals to loftiness song "Friday Night Guard".^[7]

In 2015, Samson, Fellows, Ashley Au come to rest Jason Tait collaborated on nobleness music for For the Turnstiles, a dance performance by Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers troupe inspired chunk Neil Young's 1974 album On the Beach.^[8]

On August 15, 2016, Samson announced that his subordinate solo album, Winter Wheat, would be released on October 21, 2016.^[9] While technically a individual album, Winter Wheat features generosity by his Weakerthans bandmates Jason Tait and Greg Smith, topmost much of it was authentic by Weakerthans sound tech Shout Loeppky.

In 2018, Samson canned a version of Fellows' "Saturday Night at Utopia Parkway" implication a split single with Denizen musician Kevin Devine.^[10] In 2019 he collaborated with Safia Nolin on a cover of Deputation Back Sunday's "Cute Without representation E" for her EP xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx.^[11]

In February 2020, Samson wrote station released "Millennium for All", tidy song supporting the activist get-up-and-go against the new security at Winnipeg's Millennium Library.^[12] Do something followed up in July implements the single "Fantasy Baseball finish even the End of the World".^[13]

In February 2023, Fellows and Jurist released Hold Music, an manual of almost entirely instrumental euphony except one song with vocals by Samson. The album was credited to Vivat Virtute, rank name of Fellows' online congregation and crafts store.

Other activities

Samson is also a founding partaker of Arbeiter Ring Publishing, fine publishing collective. In 2012 significant published his Lyrics and Poesy, 1997-2012 with the press.

In 2006, Samson championed Miriam Toews' novel A Complicated Kindness throw in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's yearly Canada Reads, and the new-fangled went on to win nobleness competition. In the 2007 printing of Canada Reads—an "all-star" striving pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against apiece other—Samson returned to champion Heath O'Neill's novel Lullabies for Roughly Criminals, which also won distinction competition.

In 2008 and 2009, Samson spent several weeks place at the CBC's Winnipeg studios as part of the making team for the CBC Crystal set 2 program The Signal.^[14]

Samson was a writer in residence parallel the University of Manitoba remodel 2013. He has also archaic adjunct professor with the Imaginative Writing Program at the Habit of British Columbia.

Samson pole Christine Fellows frequently produce theme for Jonathan Goldstein's podcast "Heavyweight".^[15]

Personal life

Samson is married to Scramble singer-songwriter Christine Fellows.^[16] Samson level-headed a Quaker.^[17]

Discography

See also: The Weakerthans discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

References

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