Geordie sampson biography books
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Gordie Sampson
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Gordie Sampson performs at the Granville Green concert series in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia on August 9, 2015. | |
Birth name | Gordon Francis Sampson |
Born | (1971-07-30) July 30, 1971 (age 53) Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Genres | Pop, rock, country |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, producer |
Instrument(s) | Guitar, piano, bass, drums, bouzouki, accordion, fiddle |
Years active | 1990–present |
Labels | MapleMusic |
Website | gordiesampson.com |
Musical artist
Gordon Francis Sampson (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia.
Beginning his career as a performer on his hometown island of Cape Breton, both in bands and on his own, Sampson has gone on to achieve international success as a songwriter in Nashville. He has written songs for Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and Rascal Flatts.[1] He has also released albums as a solo performer.[2]
Sampson has received a Grammy Award, a Juno Award, two ASCAP Awards, East Coast Music Awards, and honorary degrees from Cape Breton University and St. Francis Xavier University.[3][4]
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Biography
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Conclude Crime
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780312946999
- ISBN
- 9780312946999
Paperback
Condition: New
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Insight Editions, Div of Residence Publishing Congregation, LP Coalesced States
- Number senior pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608870288
- ISBN
- 9781608870288
Hardback
Condition: New
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In Search of Mary Shelley: The girl who wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
Biography
by Geordie Williamson•
August 2018, no. 403
In Search of Mary Shelley: The girl who wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
Profile Books, $34.99 pb, 304 pp, 9781781255285
Biography
by Geordie Williamson•
August 2018, no. 403
A healthy suspicion should surround books that arrive neatly on some commemorative due date – in this case, the bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is not that biographer Fiona Sampson is less than able and diligent in her efforts to celebrate a novel which has resonated like few others during the long modernity inaugurated by the European Romantics. Nor is it wrong that she should foreground Mary Shelley’s life experience as a woman and a mother as a way of revivifying a text so absorbed into our collective consciousness as to be paradoxically invisible.
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Geordie Williamson is the author of The Burning Library: Our greatest novelists lost and found (2011).