"Lay Me Down' had the Most Online Votes for six weeks in July/Aug. 2015 on the CBC Radio 2 Top 20 Countdown. It was recorded by Fortunate Ones on their 2015 release The Bliss.
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SOCAN presented a #1 Song Award to Murray Foster and Fortunate Ones for “Lay Me Down” which reached the top of the CBC Radio 2 Top 20 in August 2015. The song spent 8 weeks on the CBC Radio 2 Chart and is the second single from Fortunate One‘s award-winning album The Bliss which was released in February 2015.
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By Laura DeSilva Etobicoke Guardian Murray Foster’s fictitious band 20 years in the making is now leading a British invasion in Canada – but it took more than a hard day’s night. The former member of Moxy Fruvous, current bass player for Great Big Sea and field director for Etobicoke’s Our Place Initiative can add…
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Thrilled to see the song "Lay Me Down" hit #1 for the 2nd week in a row on the CBC Radio 2 Top 20! This song was written for Newfoundland duo Fortunate Ones who do an amazing job bringing it to life. It's one of three songs we collaborated on for their new CD The Bliss.
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The Cocksure Lads visited with Canada AM including a full band performance at the AM Soundstage.
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By Rebecca Tucker National Post For Murray Foster, there will always be something “a little magical” about British music. “I think everyone in the world goes through a Beatles phase,” he says. “It’s not like other music — the Beatles were not like any other group. It’s like: how is this band possible? How is this music…
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March 19, 2015 Todd Green, Goodman School of Business assistant professor of marketing, who researches corporate social responsibility in the music industry moderated the Music Matters panel at Brock University. Murray Foster joined broadcaster Alan Cross, audio mastering engineer Noah Mintz, and Eric Alper, director of media relations for eOne Music Canada and a well-known music commentator. Watch…
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By Stephen Cooke The Chronicle Herald Newfoundland duo Fortunate Ones lived up to their name when they scored a last-minute opening slot for Celtic pop veterans the Waterboys at Casino Nova Scotia in 2013. Andrew James O’Brien and Catherine Allan had only been using the name for a couple of months at that point, but…
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By Patrick Langston Ottawa Citizen On Jan. 21, Toronto screenwriter and director Murray Foster – AKA bassist with down-east folk rockers Great Big Sea and, before that, founding member along with Jian Ghomeshi and others of the satiric band Moxy Früvous — pitches his film The Cocksure Lads Movie to CBC’s Dragons’ Den. Foster will…
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By Linda Barnard Toronto Star A fictitious band 20 years in the making gets the big screen treatment with The Cocksure Lads Movie, written and directed by Great Big Sea’s Murray Foster, formerly of Moxy Früvous. Toronto-based Foster and Früvous bandmate Mike Ford have been writing cheeky British-invasion-style pop songs for years, even working up…
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