Song:Where Have All The Good People Gone?
Album:We Were Born In A Flame
Singer songwriter Sam Roberts has had a lot of success in his native Canada. Breaking through to the US market is proving to be more problematic. He was born Oct. 2, 1974 in Pointe Claire, PQ. He atteneded McGill University in Montreal and formed a band called William in 1993. They changed their name to Northstar in 1996. They split up in 1999 when they were unable to breakout of the indie circuit. Roberts independently produced an album in 2000 and then released the EP The Inhuman Condition in 2001. The EP eventually got the attention of Universal Music Canada and they released We Were Born In A Flame in 2003. The album and single Where Have All The Good People Gone? did very well in Canada but it didn't sell in the US. Universal decided to farm it out to their Lost Highway roots label and they rereleased it in 2004 with two bonus tracks. Roberts' latest CD Love At The End of The World was released in Canada in May 2008. It's doing as well in Canada as his other CDs. He likely benefits from Canadian content regulations. But he writes his own material and has talent so Lost Highway has to try and figure out how to sell him when they release the CD in the US in Feb. 2009. They may wind up giving up on him. Trying to break into the US market is a frequent issue for Canadian artists. Check him out for yourself. Here's the video for Where Have All The Good People Gone? by Sam Roberts.
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