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Cigar Box Banjo : Notes on Music and Life

by: Paul QuarringtonForeword by Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781553658276 | 1553658272

Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Greystone Books
Pub. Date: 7/26/2011

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Summary Author Biography

An award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter, Paul Quarringtonwas diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in summer 2009. Looking death in the face, he decided to go out singing, throwing everything he had into his work and demonstrating a creative energy that belied his illness. He was recognized with the Matt Cohen Award for his distinguished body of work, performed with his band, Porkbelly Futures, and recorded two new albums. He also finished Cigar Box Banjo, his bestselling and highly regarded memoiroreflections on his music, life, an... MOREd death. The biographical documentary film Paul Quarrington: Life In Music, following the themes in Cigar Box Banjo, aired in spring 2010 on CTV Bravo.

A musician and writer looks death in the face and reminisces about a life in songPaul Quarrington had a favourite recording as a kid: a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way. As a grown-up writer and musician, Quarrington still loved the tale. And after he learned he had stage IV lung cancer, the story took on a whole new meaning for him. Eclectic, hilarious, and endearingly frank, Cigar Box Banjo tracks a life lived in music and words. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth, playing bass with the cult band Joe Hall and the Continental Drift; and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. Ranging through rock'n'roll, the blues, folk, country, and soul, he explores how songs are made and why they affect us so profoundly. Songwriting gave him a way to take in his own experience, Quarrington tells us-road trips, bad whisky, true love, love gone wrong-and music becomes his mainstay after the Dread Diagnosis. Some people with a terminal illness find mountains to climb; Quarrington decides to go out singing. On stage, at sea, and in studios from Newfoundland to Nashville, he celebrates his last year on the planet.

Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and musician Paul Quarrington was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in summer 2009. Looking death in the face, he decided to go out singing, throwing everything he had into his work and demonstrating a creative energy that belied his illness. He performed with his band, recorded two new albums, and completed this eclectic, funny, and moving memoir of a life lived in music and words. Quarrington ruminates on the bands of his childhood; his restless youth spent playing bass with a cult band, and his incarnation, in middle age, as rhythm guitarist and singer with the band Porkbelly Futures. Ranging through rock 'n' roll, the blues, folk, country, and soul, he explores how songs are made, how they work, and why they affect us so profoundly. On stage and in studios from Newfoundland to Nashville, Quarrington celebrates his last year on the planet.

Paul Quarrington an acclaimed author, screenwriter and musician, died in January 2010, just days after completing The Cigar Box Banjo manuscript. His most recent novel, The Ravine, was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and he received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his novel King Leary, which was also the victor in �Canada Reads 2008.� Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels�The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van�are known as The Barrytown Trilogy.

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