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
Rick Wilkins & the Mutual Understanding Scarlet Ribbons Christmas With Rick Wilkins And The Mutual Understanding
Pepper Tree Carry On Pepper Tree & Penny MacCauley (split with Bobby Arvon)
Billy Martin If You Care Strawberry Soul
Rascalz Whose The Hip Hopper Really Livin'
Mystique Beyond the Four Winds Black Rider
Opposite A Dark Night Help Us Make It
Spring Shine Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Liska Angela Cry Out Loud
Lewis Baloue Bon Voyage Romantic Times
Art Snider Edelweiss Corny Songs I Play on My Organ
Braineaters Johnny Planet X
Glenn Dixon Sunset Reflections
Gentlemen of Horror Rough Hike ST (EP) (skeleton cover)
Black Knight Born To Rock Master of Disaster (EP)
Moosetracks Airplane Over the Rockies ST
Sheila Graham Straight Life ST
Mystique No Return Black Rider
D.O.A. Woke Up Screaming Disco Sucks (EP) (1st press) (White Noise Tour picture sleeve)
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Realize ST (psych cover)
Sound Sett Oh No (The Sound Sett) 1966-1967
Skarecrow Stormy Monday Blues Blues...Live at the Explorer
EQ Step Up Swellsville
Stompin' Tom Connors Carolyne Movin' On To Rouyn b/w Carolyne
King Herbert And the Knights Ooga Boogaloo With Jack Harden
Souls of Inspyration Pursuit ST
Two Tones This is My Song Live at the Village Corner
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Free to be Free ST (psych cover)
British North American Act Give Yourself a Ride In the Beginning
Ardels Stereo Popeye Rhythm & Blues
London Experimental Jazz Quartet Jazz Widow Waltz Invisible Roots
Stompin' Tom Connors The Northern Gentleman Northland's Own
Robert Armes Song for Icarus Songs for Icarus
Twice Upon a Never Butterfly of Love Twice Upon a Never
Spring Fever She Taught My Katie Woodstock
Opposite Higher and Higher Help Us Make It
Rogues I Can't Hold Out Much Longer I Can't Hold Out Much Longer b/w I'll Make It Up To You
Spring You Were Blind Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind
Frank Motley & the Bridge Crossings Cryin' All Alone Chip Dip
Langley Schools Music Project Riannon Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Sunshyne The Raven (David Sinclair) The Raven (EP)
Vicky and the Coins When the Saints Go Marching In ST
Two Tones We Come Here to Sing Live at the Village Corner
Plume) Lloyd (Réal Brousseau Let Him Go ST (psych cover)
Skarecrow Oh Canada - Susie Que (We Don’t Need) Rene Levesque b/w Oh Canada - Susie Que (picture sleeve)
Barbara Gryfe I'll Never Fall in Love Again What the World Needs Now
Perth County Conspiracy Woman for All Seasons ST
Rockadrome Ain't It a Shame Royal American 20th Century Blues
Something Evil Die Children Die Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot
John Greenwood Jig My Sailboat and Me
Phillip Werren Dance Music II Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Stompin' Tom Connors My Home Cradled Out in the Waves Northland's Own
Tex Lecor The Draveur Camp Fortune (split with David Wiffen)
Plastic Cloud Dainty General Rides ST
Derek Scott Markle Goin' Thru the Town ST
Raphaels I Change My Mind Someday b/w I Change My Mind
Ray Griff Mama, This One's for You Canada "My Native Land"
Canadian Beadles I'm Coming Home Three Faces North
Grimes Beast Infection Geidi Primes
Skarecrow Wine Wine Wine Blues...Live at the Explorer
Golden Earrings Nothing Much My Situation b/w Nothing Much
Two Tones Children Go Where I Send Thee Live at the Village Corner
Perth County Conspiracy Hindsight ST
Chantettes Jamaica Farewell Remember.....
Echoes and a Dream Just Trying to Be Echoes and a Dream
Billy Martin Phillie Dog Strawberry Soul
Black Knight Master Of Disaster Master of Disaster (EP)
VXN Just a Game ST
Stonemen In the Evening In the Evening b/w Faded Colors
Jeremy Dormouse Portrait for Marianne Toad
Moonstone David ST
Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Hit The Breaks Year Zero
Langley Schools Music Project Saturday Night Glenwood Region Music Group-Musical Supervision: Hans Fenger
Gordon Lightfoot Steel Rail Blues Movin' Soundtrack (CN picture sleeve) (split with Jean Pierre Ferland)
Other Half Stormy Monday Blues ST
Hank Noble & His Red River Valley Boys I`ll Spend My Life Loving You Things That Might Have Been // I`ll Spend My Life Loving You
Catseye Hedgegate Catseye
Jeremy Dormouse fly around my pretty little miss Toad Rejects
Brazda Brothers My Little Girl ST
Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes
Skeptical Eye Believe in Me The Devil's Playground
Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre she, still and curling Awake in th Red Desert
Mike Harris Maple Sugar Fiddle Favorites (with The Charm-Ettes)
Reign Ghost Solar Nice Reign Ghost Featuring Lynda Squires
Sheila Graham The Letter ST
Ted Daigle It May be Silly Teenage Time
Brégent Epitaphe villon Poussière Des Regrets
Liska A Smile Cry Out Loud
Blind Owl Some Tears You Have To Cry ST
Teenage Head Tearin' Me Apart Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)
Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck Funny Feeling Home Grown Stuff
Marty Gillan Colours Try A Little Kindness
Story Structure I Told You (7" Single Mix) I Told You
Stumpwater Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times Turn Me On Woman b/w Ronnie and Natalie - 6 Times
Catseye I Met a Girl Out in the Country Catseye
David Wiffen Four in the Mornin' Live at the Bunkhouse
The Organization Together Forever ST
Original Bones Song for Pierre Laporte ST
Ray Griff Calgary, Alberta Canada "My Native Land"
Floyd Lawson and the Heart of Stone Rated "X" "Coming Out"
Garden Bower Folsom Prison Blues Etc. w/ Trains

ST

Compilation

ST

GUESS289-color

Brighouse b/w Rocking Chair

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 02

45-Something Evil-Die Children Die VINYL 01

45-Something Evil-The Great Winnipeg Riot BACK

Die Children Die b/w The Great Winnipeg Riot

Something Evil

Heat

45-Heat - Brighouse bw Rocking Chair VINYL 02

Switchin'

Diodes' Paul Robinson @ Black Swan, Ottawa March 1978 courtesy Cameron Muir

Shine/ It's So Hard b/w Long, Long Way/ You Were Blind

David's Song b/w New Roads Always Cross Old Bridges

1980-07_DOA_Toronto_flyer

1983-01-03_DOA_Pier (Raleigh, NC)_flyer_+

1984-09-28_DOA + Abrasive Wheels + Battalion Of Saints + Killroy_Olympic Audit (LA, CA)_flyer_+

1987-05-24_Sacrifice + Ablaze + Faulkwolf_Bathurst Theatre (Toronto)_orange original flyer reduced

ST

ST

Glenn-Copeland, Beverly

Sussex

Picture My Face b/w Tearin' Me Apart (picture sleeve)

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

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