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Artist Biography
by Sean Westergaard
Although Toronto novelist Chris Eaton performed as a
solo artist in the late '90s and early 2000s under the name
Rock Plaza Central (sometimes with any number of backing musicians), it wasn't until 2003 that
Rock Plaza Central became a real band, recruiting
Rob Carson (guitar, banjo, trombone),
John Whytock (accordion, trumpet, percussion),
Donald Murray (mandolin, trumpet),
Scott Maynard (bass), and
Blake Howard (drums) -- with
Fiona Stewart (violin) joining in 2004 -- before releasing The World Was Hell to Us. The quirky concept album
Are We Not Horses followed in April 2007. The departures of
Carson and
Whytock
reduced the group to a quintet. Rock Plaza Central signed to the
Toronto-based indie label Paper Bag Records for the next album,
At the Moment of Our Most Needing, or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren't Alone, issued in the U.S. on June 16, 2009.
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