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Sam Roberts (born October 2, 1974) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who has released seven albums. His debut EP The Inhuman Condition, reached the Canadian charts in 2002. He and his bandmates have released three albums as Sam Roberts and four albums as Sam Roberts Band. He is also a member of Canadian group Anyway Gang, who released their debut self-titled album in 2019. Roberts has been nominated, together with his band, for fifteen Juno Awards, winning six, including Artist of the Year twice (2004 and 2009) and Album of the Year once (2004). Early life and Northstar Born in Westmount, to South African immigrants who had arrived in Montreal three weeks earlier, Roberts grew up on Cedar Avenue in Pointe-Claire, where his family moved to when he was five years old. Roberts is an alumnus of St. Edmund Elementary School, Beaconsfield; Loyola High School, N.D.G.; John Abbott College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue; and McGill University. He holds a BA in English from McGill University, graduating in 1998. Roberts' first band was William in 1993, that changed into Northstar in 1998. As William they put out a single, "Piranha EP" on Northern Assembly Records in 1996, while as Northstar they released a self-titled independent EP in 1998, but broke up in 1999. As "Sam Roberts" (2002–2010) After disbanding Northstar, Roberts recorded a twelve track demo, "Brother Down", which formed the basis for the EP, The Inhuman Condition released in 2002. Recorded with Jordon Zadorozny, Roberts "recorded a song a day". Roberts signed with artist manager Dave Spencer and began to perform live. With the assistance of Linda Bush at Universal Music Publishing Canada, he signed a publishing contract with UMPG and a record contract with MapleMusic Recordings. MapleMusic released the six track EP culled from the demo with Roberts noting that "it is not something I had intended to be my first real foray into the music world but I couldn't turn my back on such a chance". It included two breakthrough singles, "Brother Down" (released in mid-2002) and "Don't Walk Away Eileen" (released in late 2002) which were heavily promoted in the Canadian market. In August 2002, Roberts signed with Universal Music. In November 2002, Roberts won the CASBY Award for "Favourite New Artist". In 2003, he released his major label debut album, We Were Born in a Flame, with the singles "Where Have All the Good People Gone?" and "Hard Road" garnering success in the Canadian market. The album achieved double platinum sales status in Canada and won two Juno Awards in 2004: Album of the Year and Rock Album of the Year, with Roberts winning the Juno award for Artist of the Year. Roberts’ second album, Chemical City, was released in April 2006, with the first single "The Gate" topping as a No. 1 hit on Canadian radio. The second single, "Bridge to Nowhere", won the Juno Award for Video of the Year in 2007 and the album achieved platinum sales status. Roberts' third album, Love at the End of the World, released in May 2008, debuted at No. 1 on the Canadian album chart, a first for Roberts. The lead single, "Them Kids", debuted on iTunes on March 4, 2008. Roberts again won the Juno award for Artist of the Year and the album took home Rock Album of the Year and reached gold sales status. As Sam Roberts Band (2011–present) Roberts released his fourth studio album, Collider, on May 10, 2011. It is the first album under the moniker "Sam Roberts Band" instead of "Sam Roberts". The first single, "I Feel You" was officially released to Canadian radio on February 28, with an iTunes Canada release of March 8. On November 20, 2013, Roberts announced the release of next album, Lo-Fantasy, which was released by Paper Bag Records on February 11, 2014. Sam Roberts' Band released the Counting the Days EP on April 18, 2015. In 2015, the band collaborated with Toronto's Spearhead Brewery to release the "Sam Roberts Band Session Ale". Their sixth studio album, Terraform, was released October 28, 2016. On September 12, 2016, a North-American tour was announced to promote their new album. Terraform was later nominated for a 2017 Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year, losing to The Tragically Hip's Man Machine Poem. The band's seventh studio album, All of Us, was released worldwide on October 16, 2020, on Secret Weapon / Known Accomplice. On October 20, 2023, Sam Roberts Band released their new album The Adventures Of Ben Blank, featuring the tracks "Picture Of Love" and "I Dream Of You". Sam Roberts Band members The members of Sam Roberts Band as of 2020 are: Sam Roberts (lead vocals, guitar) Dave Nugent (lead guitar) Eric Fares (keyboard, guitar) James Hall (bass) Josh Trager (drums) Past Members: Corey Zadorozny (drums) Chet Doxas (tenor saxophone) Discography As Sam Roberts We Were Born in a Flame (2003) Chemical City (2006) Love at the End of the World (2008) As Sam Roberts Band Collider (2011) Lo-Fantasy (2014) TerraForm (2016) All of Us (2020) The Adventures Of Ben Blank (2023) With Anyway Gang Anyway Gang (2019) Still Anyways (2022) Awards and nominations Juno Awards The Juno Awards is a Canadian awards ceremony presented annually by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. MuchMusic Video Awards The MuchMusic Video Awards was an annual awards ceremony presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic. Roberts has received five awards from fourteen nominations. Notable performances July 30, 2003: Opening performer at Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, otherwise referred to as SARStock, promoted to mitigate the economic downturn in Toronto following a limited outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). June 12, 2003: National Hockey League's (NHL) NHL Awards ceremony main performer November 16, 2003: Canadian Football League's (CFL) 91st Grey Cup halftime show in Regina, Saskatchewan. July 2, 2005: Live 8 concert in Barrie, Ontario. January 1, 2008: AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic, outdoor ice hockey game in Buffalo, New York. August 2, 2008: Opened for The Eagles in Moncton, New Brunswick March 29, 2009: Performed at the 2009 Juno Awards July 18,19 2009: Performed at Folk on the Rocks, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. August 7, 2009: Performed a free concert at Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, in honour of Sidney Crosby and his Stanley Cup win. February 20, 2010: Performed at 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. December 31, 2010: Performed free concert in Brampton, Ontario for New Year's Eve celebrations. June 25, 2011: Performed at Bobcaygeon Musicfest in Bobcaygeon. July 1, 2011: Performed a free concert in Ottawa on Canada Day for Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. December 31, 2013: Performed at Niagara Falls' New Year's concert alongside Serena Ryder and Demi Lovato. See also Canadian rock Music of Canada References External links Sam Roberts Band Sam Roberts at IMDb Sam Roberts Band collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive. Discover the Sam Roberts popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sam Roberts books.
Best Seller Sam Roberts Books of 2024
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The Crossroads
John D. MacDonaldMore than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now t...
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Contrary Pleasure
John D. MacDonaldFor years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No o...
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The Brass Cupcake
John D. MacDonaldIn Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to h...
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More Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldOffering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing an...
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The Beach Girls
John D. MacDonaldLeo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after no ...
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Cry Hard, Cry Fast
John D. MacDonaldA gunman on the run, a seventeenyearold girl on a family vacation, a jaded working girl, a guiltstricken widower, an abandoned mistress. All heading fast down a route to sudden dea...
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A Bullet for Cinderella
John D. MacDonaldHer veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, lau...
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On the Run
John D. MacDonaldSid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup no attachments, no trai...
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The Deceivers
John D. MacDonaldHer name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Car...
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The Penguin History of the Church
Alec VidlerThe French Revolution dealt a fatal blow to the alliance of Church and State. The Christian church had to adapt to great changes from the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolu...
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The Neon Jungle
John D. MacDonaldThe Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea. Th...
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Slam the Big Door
John D. MacDonaldWhen Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women...
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Cancel All Our Vows
John D. MacDonaldFletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private neverendi...
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Border Town Girl
John D. MacDonaldContains the two novellas Border Town Girl and Linda. Border Town GirlOnce, Lane Sanson had been a Somebody war correspondent and a bestselling author. Now he was a ...
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A Man of Affairs
John D. MacDonaldSam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flam...
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Too Many Murderers
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonClassic crime from the 1960s from a master of suspenseThe first novel in the acclaimed Ben Anderson series.'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists...
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Deadly Welcome
John D. MacDonaldAlex Doyle is a tough man on a tough assignment in Ramona Beach, Florida the kind of place that doesn't trust strangers and is policed by a sheriff who echoes the locals' sentimen...
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And Murder Came Too
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonIt's murder in a sleepy French fishing village . . .Crime writer Ben Anderson was hoping for a peaceful honeymoon sailing in Europe. He's solved four murders in the last three year...
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Area of Suspicion
John D. MacDonaldFour years ago Gevan Dean found his fiancée Niki Webb in his brother Ken's arms and fled his hometown for a peaceful life in the Florida sun. But now Ken is dead murdered by a thi...
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No Deadly Drug
John D. MacDonaldIndicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie'...
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Seven
John D. MacDonaldA choice collection of seven short stories by one of America's foremost storytellers and the author of the bestselling Travis McGee series.Featuring 'Dear Old Friend', 'The Annex',...
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The Drowner
John D. MacDonaldLucille Hanson had rid herself of the wrong man her rich husband who lived casually and loved carelessly. Then she found another man she hoped would be right. She was putting toge...
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Where the Heart Is
Glenice CrosslandPreviously published as The Ever Open Door, this is a story told with warmth and humour, about a hard working, downtoearth community in a small Yorkshire town during the Second Wor...
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Hurricane
John D. MacDonaldA hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandon...
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You Live Once
John D. MacDonaldClint Sewell knew there wasn't a wife within fifty miles who didn't have reason to murder Mary Olan because there wasn't a husband around who didn't think the grass was greener in...
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Getting Away With It
Victor DavisClassic thriller from the author of QUEENS' RANSOMWhen a ruined City of London office block is bought for demolition, noone sheds a tear except for construction tycoon Vernon Gatli...
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Being Sam Frears
Mary MountThis is Sam Frears' story.This is also the story of an actor, a rockclimber and a man born with an extremely rare genetic disorder only affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Sam was supposed t...
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Please Write for Details
John D. MacDonaldAmerican bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, halfheartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much t...
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Soft Touch
John D. MacDonaldJerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful busine...
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A Key to the Suite
John D. MacDonaldCorporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. Bu...
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The Only Girl in the Game
John D. MacDonaldHer employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners sla...
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Murder for the Bride
John D. MacDonaldDillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only...
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The Price of Murder
John D. MacDonaldOn the surface, they seem like three very different people: Danny Bronson, a cunning excon struggling to go straight; his brother, Lee, a former Gridiron star turned college profes...
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The End of the Night
John D. MacDonaldThree men and a beautiful girl on a crosscountry terror spree a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing.Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did t...
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Death Trap
John D. MacDonaldIn life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should h...
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Books do Furnish a Life
Richard Dawkins'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of h...
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Medium for Murder
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonEven in the world of murder, things are not always as they seem...When Ben Anderson first came to stay at Buckleigh Combe in North Devon he found more than a few obstacles to overc...
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One Monday We Killed Them All
John D. MacDonaldStep by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to a...
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High Tide for Hanging
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonAt sea, the danger can't be escaped...Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists sin...
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The Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldFrom the author of the worldfamous Travis McGee thrillers, thirteen of John D. MacDonald's earliest and best crime and mystery stories brought together in one volume.Written at the...
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April Evil
John D. MacDonaldThe stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house ...
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Barrier Island
John D. MacDonaldTucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour ...
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The Last One Left
John D. MacDonaldWhen a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the ci...
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A Flash of Green
John D. MacDonaldJames Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had strugg...
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One More Sunday
John D. MacDonaldWelcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate stateoftheart computer equipment to process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily and where hundre...
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Dead on Cue
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonA deadly role becomes murder in the theatre...When writer Ben Anderson goes to Downshead Repertory Theatre company to see the rehearsals for his first play, he is not prepared for ...
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Ghostmaker
Victor DaviesIn the great tradition of DAY OF THE JACKAL, a chillingly tense tale of assassination and betrayal.Captain Jack Boulder was his regiment's rifle champion, and runnerup for the Quee...