Editing Stan Rogers (section)

==Early life and musical development==
Rogers was born in [[Hamilton, Ontario]],<ref name="Cove">{{cite web|url=http://stanrogers.net/about/stan-rogers|work=Stan Rogers Biographies|title=Stan Rogers biodata|publisher=Fogarty's Cove Music|access-date=October 30, 2015}}</ref> the eldest son of Nathan Allison Rogers and Valerie (née Bushell) Rogers, two [[Maritimers]] who had relocated to [[Ontario]] in search of work shortly after their marriage in July 1948. Although Rogers was raised in [[Binbrook, Ontario]],<ref name="Rockingham2016">{{cite news |url=https://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/6789050-garnet-rogers-travels-with-my-brother-stan/ |title=Garnet Rogers: Travels with my brother, Stan |last=Rockingham |first=Graham |date=July 30, 2016 |website=The Hamilton Spectator }}</ref> he often spent summers visiting family in [[Guysborough County, Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Script changed in new play |date=July 26, 1991 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/325828570/ |work=Nanaimo Daily Free Press |location=[[Nanaimo]], British Columbia |volume=117 |issue=93 |department=Entertainment Guide and tvScene |page=14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref name="O'Kane2016">{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/fogartys-cove-maritime-legend-hard-reality-and-a-quarry-that-could-change-itall/article29641074/ |title=Ballad of Fogarty's Cove: The Nova Scotia legend, a hard reality and a quarry that could change it all |date=April 15, 2016 |last=O'Kane |website=[[The Globe and Mail]] |publisher=Phillip Crawley |location=[[Toronto]], Ontario}}</ref>

It was there that he became familiar with the way of life in the [[Maritimes]], an influence which was to have a profound impact on his subsequent musical development. He was interested in music from an early age, reportedly beginning to sing shortly after learning to speak.<ref name="O'Kane2016"/> He received his first guitar, a miniature hand-built by his uncle Lee Bushell, when he was five years of age.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Stan Rogers shows off his first guitar|url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/stan-rogers-shows-off-his-first-guitar|access-date=January 3, 2018|series=Canada After Dark|first=Paul|last=Soles|network=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]|date=November 30, 1978|via=CBC Digital Archives}}</ref> He was exposed to a variety of music influences, but among the most lasting were the [[country and western]] tunes his uncles would sing during family get-togethers. Throughout his childhood, he would practice his singing and playing along with his brother [[Garnet Rogers|Garnet]], six years his junior.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Garnet |title=Garnet Rogers |url=https://garnetrogers.com/ |access-date=11 April 2024}}</ref>

While Rogers was attending [[Saltfleet high school|Saltfleet High School, Stoney Creek, Ontario]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/saltfleet/alumni-news/memories|title=Memories|date=November 6, 2014|website=Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board|publisher=Saltfleet Alumni Committee|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808235806/http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/saltfleet/alumni-news/memories/|archive-date=August 8, 2017}}</ref> he started to meet other young people interested in [[folk music]], although at this time he was dabbling in [[rock and roll]], singing and playing bass guitar in [[garage bands]] such as "Stanley and the Living Stones" and "The Hobbits".<ref name=spider>{{cite news |date=October 25, 1967 |title=Spider Starts Strong Web |last1=Yeatman |first1=Jill |last2=Weeks |first2=Graham |url=http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/islandora/object/arthur:658/datastream/PDF/view |format=PDF |editor1-last=O'Brian |editor1-first=Geoff |work=Arthur |volume=2 |issue=6 |location=Peterborough, Ontario |publisher=Trent University |page=7 |via=Trent University Digital Collections |quote=Hobbit spokesman, Stan Rogers, usually accounted for most of the instrumental sound... |access-date=July 17, 2017 |archive-date=July 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717212146/http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/islandora/object/arthur:658/datastream/PDF/view |url-status=dead }}</ref> After high school, Rogers briefly attended both [[McMaster University]] and [[Trent University]], where he performed in small venues with other student musicians, including [[Ian Tamblyn]], [[Christopher Ward (songwriter)|Christopher Ward]] and fellow Hobbit [[Nigel Russell]].<ref>[https://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/islandora/object/arthur:551/datastream/PDF/view "Hoot Heats Up"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807121821/https://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/islandora/object/arthur:551/datastream/PDF/view |date=August 7, 2020 }}. ''The Arthur'', Volume II, No. 9. November 22, 1967. C. Hardess.</ref><ref name=spider/> Russell wrote the song "White Collar Holler", which Rogers sang frequently on stage.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anglo-canadian-occupational-songs-emc "Anglo-Canadian Occupational Songs"]. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', Edith Fowke 02/07/06</ref>

Rogers signed with [[RCA Records]] in 1970 and recorded two singles: "Here's to You Santa Claus" in 1970,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Copyright Office|year=1970 |title=Music: Current and Renewal Registrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oj0hAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1926|journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries|series=3rd|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|publication-date=1971|volume=24, Part 5|issue=2, Section I|page=1926}}</ref> and "The Fat Girl Rag" in 1971.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Copyright Office|year=1971|title=Music: Current and Renewal Registrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HkMhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1544|journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries|series=3rd|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Library of Congress|publication-date=1972|volume=25, Part 5|issue=1, Section I|page=1544}}</ref> In 1973, Rogers recorded three singles for Polygram: "Three Pennies", "Guysborough Train", and "Past Fifty."<ref>{{cite journal|author=Copyright Office|year=1973|title=Music: Current and Renewal Registrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0shAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2402|journal=Catalog of Copyright Entries|series=3rd|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Library of Congress|publication-date=1974|volume=27, Part 5|issue=2, Section I|page=2402}}</ref>

In 1976, Rogers recorded his debut album, ''Fogarty's Cove'', released in 1977 on Barnswallow Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/88751368|title=Fogarty's Cove [sound recording]|last=Rogers|first=Stan|year=1977|website=Library of Congress Online Catalogue|publisher=Fogarty's Cove Music|location=Hamilton, Ontario, Canada|access-date=February 24, 2017|quote=Originally released in 1977 on Barn Swallow Records, BS 1001.}}</ref> The album's subject matter dealt almost entirely with life in [[Maritimes|maritime Canada]], and was an immediate success. Rogers then formed [[Fogarty's Cove Music]], and bought Barnswallow during the production of ''Turnaround'', allowing him to release his own albums. [[posthumous work|Posthumously]], additional albums were released.
 
<!---Significant passage about his musical development required here----->
Sung in his rich baritone, Rogers' songs are often said to have a "[[Celtic music|Celtic]]" feel which is due, in part, to his frequent use of [[DADGAD]] guitar tuning. He regularly used his [[William Laskin|William 'Grit' Laskin]]-built [[12-string guitar]] in his performances. His best-known songs include "[[Northwest Passage (song)|Northwest Passage]]", "[[Barrett's Privateers]]", "[[The Mary Ellen Carter]]", "[[Make and Break Harbour]]", "[[The Idiot (song)|The Idiot]]", "[[Fogarty's Cove]]", and "[[White Squall (song)|White Squall]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stanrogers.net/about/stan-rogers/|title=Stan Rogers Biographies|date=September 21, 2020|website=Fogarty's Cove Music}}</ref>