Jonny Stevens

From 1997 with their disbanding in 2005, the brand new Breed were the Canadian Maritimes’ response to the anthemic, folk-influenced road punk from the Dropkick Murphys or the Swingin’ Utters. Acquiring their cues through the Pogues, Billy Bragg, and tips of traditional rockers like Thin Lizzy and Bruce Springsteen, the Halifax, Nova Scotia, music group was led by vocalist and songwriter Jonny Stevens. Stevens was raised in the seaside Nova Scotia angling community of Lunenberg and got proved helpful as an apprentice shipwright as an adolescent before moving towards the provincial capital of Halifax in his past due teens. Influenced similarly by his initial contact with Halifax’s growing punk picture and his parents’ traditional rock and roll and folk albums, Stevens shaped the New Breed of dog in 1997 and released four albums between 1999 and 2004: Blue Training collar Blues, Daily, Port Town Rebels, and From the Beaten Route. Sense constrained by the brand new Breed’s road punk picture and writing even more overtly folk-influenced tunes, Stevens split up the New Breed of dog in 2005 to go on a single career. Forming a fresh, quieter backing music group called the Racquet, with guitarist Norman Like, organist Ian Mosher, bassist Serge Samson, and drummer Chris Gillis, Stevens released his self-titled single debut in the springtime of 2007.