Rarest Canadian Music

Rarest Canadian Music

Welcome to the deep end of the archive—an unparalleled collection of Canada’s most elusive, obscure, and impossible-to-find recordings. Private press LPs, vanished 45s, cassette-only gems, and forgotten studio experiments—all rescued from the brink of silence. Spanning every genre and region, RAREST CANADIAN MUSIC shines a light on the voices, visions, and vinyl that slipped through the cracks of mainstream history. Unearthed, digitized, and preserved—this is Canada’s hidden soundtrack.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Skarecrow Bo Diddley Blues...Live at the Explorer
Ardels Unchain My Heart Rhythm & Blues
Dutch Mason C.C. Rider Half Ain't Been Told
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding What Child is This Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Mike Harris By the Fireside Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Rascalz Buggin' to the Boogie Really Livin'
John Greenwood There is Peace My Sailboat and Me
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck One Ring Jane Home Grown Stuff
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) The Incest Song Motherlove
Alexander Brott & Donald McGill Canada: Case History (Earle Birney) - Erosion (E.J. Pratt) - Children of Martha (Gilean Douglas) - Quiet (Marjorie Pickthall) - Paul Bunyan (A Legend of his return to St. Eustache) (Arthur S. Bourinot Sept for Seven: Seven Brief Movements Combining the Arts of Music and Poetry - A Setting of Five Canadian Poems, Introduced by Musical Prelude and concluded with a Postlude
London Experimental Jazz Quartet The Sound of Next Year's Echo Invisible Roots
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Jazz Widow Waltz Invisible Roots
Jeff Moore & Friends Is It You (Jeff Moore) The Youngest Son
Willie Dunn Walking Eagle Who Were The Ones? Parts 11-12
Les 409 They Say They Say b/w Born in Chicago
A Joint Effort Molly and Tenbrooks Final Effort
The Organization Crocadile Rock ST
Ardels Georgia On My Mind Rhythm & Blues
Sidewinders A Voyage Flatfoot Hustlin'
Stephanie Taylor Working on a Groove Thing "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Moonstone Relative Hoak ST
VXN Not Only in Love ST
Wes Dakus & the Club 93 Rebels Dog Food Dog Food b/w Surfs U Rite (promo)
Reign Ghost Long Day Journey #2 Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Art Snider Denise Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Compilation Myrna Lawrence - Here, There and Everywhere Unselfconsciously Canadian
Gentlemen of Horror Overhead Projector ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Bonnie Scots The Billy and the Sally Laugh and Cry
Medium In Between ST
bpNichol (Barry Phillip Nichol) Dada Lama Motherlove
Moonstone Murk ST
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys Things That Might Have Been Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Lucio Agostini Canadians at Work Once Upon a Hundred Years
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Spain is for Old Ladies Invisible Roots
Echoes and a Dream Life is a Love Song Echoes and a Dream
Benge Black Sky Lullaby Money Man b/w Black Sky Lullaby
Jim Brown Roy Cooper - Prelude to 1984 The First See Hear
Athenians of Toronto Light My Fire San Skoteiniazei
Moosetracks Sophie ST
Hi-Fives Mo-Shun Fujikami The Warrior b/w Mo-Shun
Stefan Gnys The Pleasant Land of Counterpane English Oaks and Evangeline
David Fromager Girl from the North Country If What You Said Was True
Garden Bower Lonesome Bill’s Blues Etc. w/ Trains
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre awake in the red desert Awake in th Red Desert
Jensen Sisters You Light Up My Life Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Stumpwater Stumpwater - Turn Me On Woman Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
Stefan Gnys Soliloguy English Oaks and Evangeline
The Fringe Executive Dream Canada's Next Number One Recording Group (EP) promo
Billy Martin Funky Feelin' Strawberry Soul
Stephanie Taylor Feeling Groovy "I Don't Know Where I Stand"
Robert Armes Sun Song Songs for Icarus
Skeptical Eye Universal Call - The Message The Devil's Playground
Howard & Smith Monotype Limited Symphony #1 In A, B, C, D, etc. The Optic Earful
Lewis Baloue My Whole Life L'amour
Liska Rose Cry Out Loud
Sacrifice DE01_Sacrifice_Larry_s Hideaway (Toronto)_1985-03-25 Interviews 1985 + First Live Show
Skeptical Eye The Devil's Playground The Devil's Playground
Jensen Sisters Do What Makes You Happy Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
King Herbert And the Knights Let's Get Together With Jack Harden
Jensen Sisters Let a Raindrop be a Tear for You Dancin' In The Autumn Breeze
Huckle Beautiful You Are Wild Blue Yonder
Twice Upon a Never Obladi Oblada Twice Upon a Never
Huckle Minstrel Song Upon a Once Time (hand-painted cover)
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Hagood Hardy & the Montage The Garden Path The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life
Jackie Mittoo Sugar Jar Stepping Tiger
Sound Sett Just a Little (Ron Elliott & Bob Durand, The Breau Brummels) 1966-1967
Ray Griff Maple Leaf Canada "My Native Land"
British North American Act Don't Run Away In the Beginning
Ronnie Fray & The Playboys Mean Mama Blues Mean Mama Blues b/w The Vulture
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Marlo Lauzon & Lutia Silhouette ST
Rockadrome Inside Out, Inside In Royal American 20th Century Blues
Brégent La mélancolie Poussière Des Regrets
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) State Of The Art Year Zero
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Rock and Soul Chip Dip
Ice Soul Searcher On the Radio b/w Soul Searcher
Dis Band Hesitation Gone Dead Out
Sweet Somethings Young World hold on!..sweet somethings are comin'
Mynah Birds The Mynah Bird Song The Mynah Bird Hop b/w The Mynah Bird Song
Brazda Brothers Lonely Time ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) In A Bad Way (Remix) Year Zero
Story Structure I Told You (Extended Mix) I Told You
Compilation Joe Vassos - New World Unselfconsciously Canadian
Perth County Conspiracy Welcome Surprise ST
David House of the Rising Sun ST
David Never Been In Love ST
Original Bones Rollin' Over ST
New Creation All is Well Troubled
David Fromager If What You Said Was True If What You Said Was True
Joe College & the Rulers Working Class Hero It Ain't Allright (With Me) b/w Working Class Hero
Emtidi Walkin' In The Park Saat
Lewis Baloue So Be in Love With Me Romantic Times
Georges Leningrad lollipon lady Made In Taiwan
May Run Up Where Dreams Begin Days Into Years
Aftermath Sunny Do You Believe In Magic? b/w Sunny

Ready to Rock b/w (with Gerry Fiander)

Gerry Fiander with Elvis Presley (History Van R&R Vol 1)

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison / Ready to Rock b/w (split with Gerry Fiander)

Gone Dead Out

Dis Band

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 02

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out CASSETTE 01

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out BACK

CASSETTE - Dis Band - Gone Dead Out FRONT FOLDOUT

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) (promo, DJ Label copy only)

ST

Cybernaut b/w Mean Lady

Shakey Ground b/w Feelings

45-Hi Octane Band - Shakey Ground VINYL 02

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

The Garden Path b/w Won't You Step Into My Life

45-Hagood Hardy & the Montage - The Garden Path VINYL 02

ST

ST

Minutes From Downtown '82

Minutes From Downtown

CASSETTE - Minutes From Downtown - ST DEMO FRONT

Wheeeee! Demo

Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires

ST

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Reign Ghost

Comments

Robert Williston

ok. thanks. I'll get those posted in the next little while....RW

Anonymous

oops - correct title of the Rockadrome album is "Royal American 20th Century Blues" - vk

Anonymous

I'd like to nominate: the first Cargo album (Front Side Back Side), bil bisset & mandan massacre (Awake in th Red Desert), the first two Intersystems albums, Jeff Moore & Friends (The Youngest Son), the second Reign Ghost album (featuring Lynda Squires), and Rockadrome (20th Century Royal American Blues) - vk