John K. Samson
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John Kristjan Samson is a rock musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and is currently front man for the Canadian indie rock band The Weakerthans. He played bass in the punk band Propagandhi during the mid-1990s but is probably best known for his current role fronting The Weakerthans.
In 1993, while still a member of Propagandhi, he released a fifteen-track solo album on cassette tape, entitled Slips and Tangles. In 1995, six of these songs were featured on a split CD shared with the now-defunct punk band Painted Thin. Following the critical success of The Weakerthans, Samson's side of the split CD was re-released online by G7 Welcoming Committee as a digital EP in 2006.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Samson is also a founding member of Arbeiter Ring Publishing, a Winnipeg, Manitoba publishing collective. Samson is active in the Winnipeg arts scene, collaborating on projects with artists such as his wife Christine Fellows and Clive Holden.
Samson championed Miriam Toews' novel, A Complicated Kindness, in Canada Reads 2006. A Complicated Kindness won the competition. In the 2007 edition of Canada Reads, an "all-star" competition pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against each other, Samson returned to champion Heather O'Neill's novel Lullabies for Little Criminals, which again was the winning title.
Samson is currently collaborating with Fellows on her fourth album. Fellows and Samson also performed live on the network on March 17, 2007, to mark the final night of the network's terrestrial simulcast on CBC Radio Two.
[edit] Albums
- Slips and Tangles (1993)
- Little Pictures (1995, 2006)
[edit] External links
- The Weakerthans
- Live videos at scheduletwo.com
- John K. Samson in session at CBC Radio 3
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