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Barney Bentall

Barney Bentall Radio

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Folk Rock / Roots Music

    Location CA

    Profile Views: 58006

    Last Login: 1/16/2012

    Member Since 7/25/2006

    Website http://barneybentall.ca/

    Record Label True North Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Born in Toronto, Barney Bentall grew up in Calgary, moving to Vancouver in 1978 to try his hand at music. He formed the band Brandon Wolf and released two independent discs and one for A&M Records, all recorded at the infamous Little Mountain Sound. A dedicated family man, he faced a struggle to keep writing and performing music while supporting four children. In 1988 at the point when a day job seemed imminent, Barney formed The Legendary Hearts and signed with Columbia/CBS Records. Their self-titled debut sold over 100,000 copies and featured three hit singles in Canada, winning a Juno in 1989. Between 1988 and 2000 the band toured extensively and released five studio albums which all reached gold or platinum status in Canada. In 2000, Bentall moved to British Columbia to operate a cattle ranch. After this change of perspective, 2007 brought the solo release of Gift Horse on True North Records. Bentall also formed The Grand Cariboo Opry with a variety of musicians as a way to help raise funds for needy residents of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The Inside Passage is Bentall's seventh studio album. He explains, "I knew the title of the record long before I wrote the song. I wanted to write a collection of songs that were loosely based on moving through life. I grew up on the prairies but we spent our summers out at the coast. We had a boat and we would take it on long trips from the San Juan Islands to Desolation Sound. I've always felt the pull of those two spaces - the prairies where they rise to meet the Rockies, and the sea as it collides with the Coastal range." Recorded in the spring and summer of 2008, The Inside Passage was recorded and produced by John Ellis (Ridley Bent, Be Good Tanyas, and Barney's son Dustin Bentall) at his Nashcroft Studios, with Daniel Lapp on fiddle, horns, and piano, Rob Becker on bass and Geoff Hicks on drums. "For the last two albums,", says Bentall, "I've never made a demo, and only put music to tape when it came time to record. I had read a quote of Paul McCartney saying that they never wrote music down or made demos. If the idea was good they would remember it! It seemed like a leap of faith at first but I got into it." He currently divides his time between his ranch in the Cariboo and Bowen Island with his wife Kath and an ever-increasing tribe of in-laws and grandchildren. http://www.barneybentall.com

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  • Chris Butt

    See you tonight at the Rose.

    10 months ago
  • ROTJOCH

    Thanx for the add. Greetings from The Netherlands!

    1 year ago
  • Barry Muir

    Barney, just love your new CD it gets played a lot at my place

    Barry

    1 year ago
  • Punky's Gutbucket

    Nice to meet you...

    1 year ago
  • Miss Kristin

    Love is in the music and its really something wonderful to fathom here.
    Stay strong in doing all you love!
    Feel free to keep in touch.

    Gonna ride where the warm wind blows...
    Where the nights last long... Where the days are short....
    Down this dusty road.
    http://soundcloud.com/misskristin/sets/free

    1 year ago
  • Alberta Sanders

    Lookin' forward to your concert at Fergus truck show! I have been a fan for a very long time! Dustin Bentall is awesome just like DAD! I love his tunes!!!

    1 year ago
  • Sayde Black

    great music:)
    -Sayde Black

    1 year ago
  • INDIECAN MUSIC

    Hello,

    Great to have you on IndieCan Radio...Episode 169!

    Read, listen and share...

    http://www.indiecan.com/podcast.htm#episode169

    http://www.indiecan.com/169IndieCanRadio.mp3

    Cheers,

    Team IndieCan
    IndieCan Radio
    www.indiecan.com

    IndieCan Radio, the best music you've never heard, airs on XM Satellite Radio The Verge (Channel 87) twice a week plus ten FM and internet radio stations across North America. Downloaded and streamed by over 120 countries.

    1 year ago
  • Marlyne Marrese

    Thank you for the wonderful concert in Port Coquitlam last night!

    2 years ago
  • Matthew Mutch

    soundin' good..rock on my friend!

    2 years ago
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