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Author Harrison, Trevor W., 1952- author.

Title Prairie Bohemian : Frank Gay's life in music / Trevor W. Harrison
Edition First edition
Published Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Army tunes -- 3. Postwar Toronto -- 4. Edmonton the new -- 5. The shop -- 6. Guitar maker to the stars -- 7. World-class concerts -- 8. The dark side -- 9. Musical flights and nothing more -- 10. Giving back -- 11. House parties and Mr. Montoya -- 12. Marriage redux -- 13. Wood songs from the south side -- 14. Frank Gay's travelling music show -- 15. Jack Paget's tape -- 16. Searching for a miracle -- 17. The final years -- 18. Frank agonistes -- 19. Final days -- 20. The funeral -- 21. Legacy -- 22. "The repressed unmakeable" -- 23. Coda
Summary Long-overdue biography of the enigmatic Western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 19, 2015)
Subject Gay, Frank
Stringed instrument makers -- Canada -- Biography
Guitarists -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Strings.
Guitarists
Stringed instrument makers
Canada
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
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