Rock My World Canada, chapter 136: Ben Sures
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Ben Sures (born December 29, 1967) is a roots musician and contributor to CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show. A mostly-self-taught musician, Sures discovered the music of Robert Johnson at age 15 and devoted himself to the study of blues and roots. He spent close to a decade as an itinerant street musician and more than 20 years touring the Canadian coffee house and festival circuit both as a solo headliner and as a sideman for blues musicians such as Harp Dog Brown, Rita Chiarelli and Paul Reddick. During that time, he developed a distinctive, quirky songwriting style marked by plain-spoken lyrics that often express unique takes on unusual topics. He won the folk category of the 2005 John Lennon Song Competition with “Any Precious Girl, a compassionate-yet-unpatronizing song about a young woman with bipolar disorder.
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