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G'Ling G'Ling - David Nelson Ostrosser (sing-a-long version) DavidNelsonOstrosser 29 views Summers are hot in Quebec, so when the ice-cream man comes pedalling through the neighbourhood it's a big deal and the kids come pouring out of the backyards at the sound o...
Sunnyland - John Beggs Blues Band DavidNelsonOstrosser 41 views Here's another old John Beggs Band recording of an Elmore James classic, featuring Steve Caller on vocals. This one is dedicated to the memory of our piano player at the ti...
I Bought the Company - David Nelson Ostrosser (Sing-Along version) DavidNelsonOstrosser 5 views A song which tells the story of a night spent with a lady of the night. With help from René Gely (guitar, string arrangements, bass), Véronique Turcotte (violins), André...
Don't Start Me Talkin' - The John Beggs Blues Band DavidNelsonOstrosser 24 views A trip down memory lane. In 1973, a group of blues-loving teenagers were introduced to a British blues singer named Steve Caller at a jam session in Mission, BC. Steve had ...
Wisdom of the Aged - David Nelson Ostrosser DavidNelsonOstrosser 15 views A rare serious song. In fact, a disgusted, curmudgeonly song. The verses touch on some of the things that are wrong with the world these days: the hypocrisy of the religiou...
Check-Out Baby - Ostrich DavidNelsonOstrosser 10 views This is a tune recorded on 45 in the mid-80s, under the name "Ostrich". It got quite a bit of airplay, notably on CKBY in Ottawa. I was only 16 when I wrote it so please do...
Love Ain't Fair - David Nelson Ostrosser DavidNelsonOstrosser 15 views This is a tune originally recorded on 45 in the mid-80s, under the name "Ostrich". It was the B side of "Check-Out Baby" which got quite a bit of airplay, notably on CKBY i...
I'll Fly Away - David Nelson Ostrosser DavidNelsonOstrosser 7 views It could be somewhere in Kentucky, but it's a pastoral moment in Matawatchan, Ontario, about 10 years ago.
Rollin' in my Sweet Baby's Arms - David Nelson Ostrosser DavidNelsonOstrosser 25 views Just a little jam with Ginger the fiddle lady up in Matawatchan in the Ottawa Valley, at the grand-parents house
Iggy Eyebrows 2011 DavidNelsonOstrosser 68 views A little tribute to the eyebrows of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (and to my own). Featuring Hugo Lyrette on guitar and Dominic Bouchard (from Fleeba) on drums. Un homma...

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David Nelson Ostrosser was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. His parents, fervent evangelical Christians, were both active in gospel music from and early age, and David's father Robert travelled extensively with the musical Rutledge brothers, brothers-in-law of weepy Canadian evangelistic television host David Mainse. In 1960, David's family moved to Australia with other members of his father's singing group, where they help to establish a novel (at that time) youth camp with a cowboy-style, horse-centred theme. Followed a return to Canada where the older Ostrosser was a part of several other ranch camp ministries, both in Ontario and in British Columbia. After a series of moves that saw David change primary schools seven times in seven years, the family settled down in Mission, British Columbia, where David first started writing songs and playing music.

After starting out on trumpet at 11 years of age, David switched to drums, at 16 backing first country singers, and then a blues band fronted by a pub singer from England named Steve Caller. Itching to go on the road playing music full-time at this point, David switched to piano and took over on lead vocals. The band travelled around B. C. and to the Yukon, and did several house stints in seedy Vancouver bars in the city's infamous Downtown Eastside, notably at a club called Fort Boogie, where they would do four sets before a bizarre crowd of junkies and homeless drunks, while naked go-go dancers gyrated on each side of the stage.

Following the evaporation of the high hopes of that first creative musical unit, David tried his luck in Toronto for a while, then returned to B. C., playing in countless bar band and duo collaborations and travelling throughout Western Canada, from Ft. Simpson in the Northwest Territories to Neepawa, Manitoba.

David produced a couple of singles in the 1980s, including "Check-Out Baby, Don't Check Out On Me", a whimsical creation that received respectable airplay for an independent record in those dying days of the vinyl format.

A growing interest in Quebec music and literature prompted a cross-Canada move, and David began a new musical career in Hull, Quebec, in the early nineties, hooking up with two other local musicians for a house gig in a bar just off the notorious Hull Strip (since cleaned up). It was light years away from the music of Harmonium and the glory days of Quebecois "Peace and Love" of the mid-seventies, and the engagement came to an abrupt end when a half-dozen police raided the club and came onstage to arrest the drummer.

After an interval away from music during which he went back to school to obtain a bachelor's degree in Translation, started a family and generally settled down for good, David was inspired to write a half-dozen new songs and combine them with a number of older originals and record them with the help of Gatineau producer René Gely. The result is Second Hand Store, an LP-length collection of country and americana originals that bears witness to David's affection for the vinyl medium.

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