Garnet Rogers

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Garnet Rogers

Garnet Rogers (1955 – ) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He began his professional career working with his brother, folk music legend Stan Rogers. Together they created a sound that has influenced nearly every Canadian musician after them, as well as countless other musicians around the world.

Since Stan Rogers' death in 1983, Garnet Rogers has paved his own creative path, which has resulted in numerous albums of highly original and expressive songs. 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.

Some of Garnet's most popular songs include The Outside Track, All That Is, Sleeping Buffalo, Night Drive, Under The Summer Moonlight, Summer Lightning, Small Victories, and Three Fishers. His songs range from slices of life to mild social commentary and humor. His humor 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 also done successful covers of 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 horses.