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"Chester" is a song from Black Cabbage, a Guelph collective, and appeared on their A Recording by Black Cabbage CD. This is probably the most obscure song on the list (there was no entry for the band at Discogs until I added it this spring, and no recording of "Chester" on YouTube until I added it one Pink Shirt day), yet is in the top sextile, because Black Cabbage has a particular connection to my family: we – a great scowl of Martins – saw Black Cabbage play outside in front of Kitchener's City Hall one bitterly cold, rollicking New Year's Eve.
The Guelph Mercury defined Black Cabbage music as a mix of "rock, folk, punk, Motown, blues, African, Celtic, country, and gypsy influences."
"Chester" wasn't released as a single, but A Recording by Black Cabbage charted on university radio (#1 on CFRU in Guelph, #2 on CKMS in Waterloo, #9 on CKDU in Halifax), according to this minimalist web page. Interestingly, "Chester" was produced by Dave Clark, of the Rheostatics, with Lewis Melville, who turns up on many of my favourite Canadian recordings.
| Hometown: | Guelph |
| Canadian Content: | I've often thought of "Chester" as a sort of Canadian "Jeremy" |
| Release Date: | August 1995 |
| Composer: | Tristan O'Malley |
| Album: | A Recording by Black Cabbage |
| Style: | folk punk |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not exist |
| Mar*Star 150: | 24 |
Click here for the song on YouTube.
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