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'''Fred Booker''' (1939–2008) was a Canadian author and singer-songwriter. |
'''Fred Booker''' (1939–2008) was a Canadian author and singer-songwriter. Booker immigrated to [[Canada]] in 1966<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.commodorebooks.com/authors.html | title=南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司 | access-date=2013-01-30 | archive-date=2017-02-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224062204/http://www.commodorebooks.com/authors.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> from the United States and became a notable member of Vancouver's music and literary scenes. His intimately personal songs were often characterized by his versatile acoustic guitar riffs and resonating vibrato voice. Amongst Booker's influences were Black American [[poetry]] and [[spoken word]], [[Gospel music|gospel]], folk and [[jazz]] music, some of which he accredited to his experience growing up in a [[Baptist]] church and hearing the blues and gospel songs that were often sung in his childhood home.<ref>From record sleeve, Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker. Fred Booker. Vinyl. Rulebook Records, 1974.</ref> His experience as a black man in Vancouver and the "Pacific Rain Forest of [[British Columbia]]"<ref>From record sleeve, Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker. Fred Booker. Vinyl. Rulebook Records, 1974.</ref> became the subject of much of his poetry and songwriting, where he reflected on things like his time travelling and touring Canada, his hardships amidst the starkly contrasting class structure of Vancouver, and his continuous admiration for the mystery of both his urban and rural surroundings. |
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In 2006, the Vancouver-based black literary press |
In 2006, the Vancouver-based black literary press Commodore Books published Fred Booker's first collection of [[short fiction]] entitled ''Adventures in Debt Collection'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.commodorebooks.com/catalogue.html | title=南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司 | access-date=2013-01-30 | archive-date=2017-02-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223143602/http://www.commodorebooks.com/catalogue.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2007, two of his short stories were dramatized on the [[CBC Radio One]] show [[Between the Covers (radio program)|Between the Covers]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=9028|title=Booker Fred|newspaper=ABC Bookworld }}</ref> |
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== Discography == |
== Discography == |
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'''''Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker.'' |
'''''Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker.''''' |
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LP. Rulebook Records, 1974. Recorded at Stoney Production Studios, North Vancouver, BC. |
LP. Rulebook Records, 1974. Recorded at Stoney Production Studios, North Vancouver, BC. |
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== Bibliography == |
== Bibliography == |
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Booker, Fred. ''Adventures in Debt Collection''. Vancouver: Commodore Books, 2006.<ref>http://www.commodorebooks.com/catalogue.html</ref> |
Booker, Fred. ''Adventures in Debt Collection''. Vancouver: Commodore Books, 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.commodorebooks.com/catalogue.html | title=南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司 | access-date=2013-01-30 | archive-date=2017-02-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223143602/http://www.commodorebooks.com/catalogue.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* Commodore Books [http://www.commodorebooks.com website] |
* Commodore Books [http://www.commodorebooks.com website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831011213/http://www.commodorebooks.com/ |date=2006-08-31 }} |
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* https://www.straight.com/life/adventures-debt-collection-fred-booker |
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* Compton, Wayde, ed. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. |
* Compton, Wayde, ed. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. |
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* https://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/11/03/Booker/ |
* [https://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/11/03/Booker/ Tale of a ‘Bad White Black Man’] |
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* {{Cite web | last=Compton | first=Wayde | title=After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region| publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press | year=2010 | url=https://www.amazon.ca/After-Canaan-Essays-Writing-Region/dp/1551523744}} |
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[[Category:American short story writers]] |
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Latest revision as of 13:56, 10 May 2024
Fred Booker (1939–2008) was a Canadian author and singer-songwriter. Booker immigrated to Canada in 1966[1] from the United States and became a notable member of Vancouver's music and literary scenes. His intimately personal songs were often characterized by his versatile acoustic guitar riffs and resonating vibrato voice. Amongst Booker's influences were Black American poetry and spoken word, gospel, folk and jazz music, some of which he accredited to his experience growing up in a Baptist church and hearing the blues and gospel songs that were often sung in his childhood home.[2] His experience as a black man in Vancouver and the "Pacific Rain Forest of British Columbia"[3] became the subject of much of his poetry and songwriting, where he reflected on things like his time travelling and touring Canada, his hardships amidst the starkly contrasting class structure of Vancouver, and his continuous admiration for the mystery of both his urban and rural surroundings.
In 2006, the Vancouver-based black literary press Commodore Books published Fred Booker's first collection of short fiction entitled Adventures in Debt Collection,[4] and in 2007, two of his short stories were dramatized on the CBC Radio One show Between the Covers.[5]
Discography
[edit]Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker. LP. Rulebook Records, 1974. Recorded at Stoney Production Studios, North Vancouver, BC.
- Side One:
- • Someone's Coming Back (3:30)
- • Big Mike (4:23)
- • Red Flowers (4:09)
- • Someone Coming Back (4.30)
- • Light On The Mountain (5:10)
- Side Two:
- • Seven Years Of Famine (6:30)
- • Rain Is A Freedom Song (6:40)
- • Powell Street Conspiracy (3:37)
- • Going Back To Duncan (3:20)
Road Song. LP. Rulebook Records, 1976. Recorded at Stoney Production Studios, North Vancouver, BC.
- Side One:
- • White Rock (2:27)
- • Vikki's Man (4:57)
- • Amazing Grace (4:20)
- • Brown Earth (4:58)
- • You Can Learn Nothing More Standing Still (3:33)
- Side Two:
- • The Ballad of Suggs Jackson (9:53)
- • Better Go Down Easy (5:15)
- • Wild Alberta Rose (4:35)
Bibliography
[edit]Booker, Fred. Adventures in Debt Collection. Vancouver: Commodore Books, 2006.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司". Archived from the original on 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ^ From record sleeve, Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker. Fred Booker. Vinyl. Rulebook Records, 1974.
- ^ From record sleeve, Book One: Songs, Voice & Guitar of Fred Booker. Fred Booker. Vinyl. Rulebook Records, 1974.
- ^ "南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司". Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ^ "Booker Fred". ABC Bookworld.
- ^ "南昌咏挝科技股份有限公司". Archived from the original on 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
External links
[edit]- Commodore Books website Archived 2006-08-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Compton, Wayde, ed. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature.
- Tale of a ‘Bad White Black Man’
- Compton, Wayde (2010). "After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region". Arsenal Pulp Press.
Categories:
- 20th-century American short story writers
- American folk singers
- American folk guitarists
- American male guitarists
- Canadian male short story writers
- Canadian folk guitarists
- Canadian male guitarists
- Canadian folk singers
- 1939 births
- 2008 deaths
- Singers from Cleveland
- Singers from Vancouver
- 20th-century American male singers
- 20th-century American singers
- 20th-century Canadian male singers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century American guitarists
- Guitarists from Ohio
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 20th-century American male musicians