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John Fettes

About Me

John Fettes pairs sparse folk and incisive pop to create deceptively simple songs about the people living between the strip malls, suburbs and skyscrapers.
Download the songs, burn them on to cds/mixtapes/whatever you like, and share them with your friends. Music is made to be heard.

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Member Since: 08/06/2005
Influences: simon and garfunkel, arshile gorky, marcel duchamp, leonard cohen, the doors, elliott smith, clann zu, matthew good, the refused, propagandhi, the dead kennedys, the beatles, the beach boys, raised fist, neil young, johnny cash, corb lund, greg macpherson, james joyce, roch carrier, ernest hemingway, bucky driedger, john dye, brad mey, johnny wakeham.
Sounds Like: saskatchewan.
Record Label: INDEPENDENT

My Blog

2007 Canadian Folk Music Nomination

On the strength of "Poor Art for Poor People", I've been nominated for "Young Artist of the Year" for the 2007 Folk Music Awards.   How's that for exciting?
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:54:00 GMT

twenty thousand plays

thanks, guys. hopefully we'll have some real new recordings for you before it gets to thirty.
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:00:00 GMT

the other side of the hedge

At first I thought I was going to be like my brother, whom I had had to leave by the roadside a year or two 'round the corner. He had wasted his breath on singing and his strength on helping others. B...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:56:00 GMT