Shakin' All Over: Canadian Pop Music In The 1960s

This 90-minute documentary aired on CBC-TV two years ago, and is now available on DVD with an extra hour of interviews. The film looks at the rich music scenes that developed across Canada four decades ago and features performance footage from household names like The Guess Who, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen as well as talented bands who enjoyed some success but are little known today, including the kilt-wearing Great Scots and Three's A Crowd — who spawned both Bruce Cockburn and David Wiffen. There are interviews with figures as well known as Gordon Lightfoot and as forgotten as a member of The Haunted. Additional interviews with more current artists — including Matthew Good, Sarah Slean, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman and Sloan's Jay Ferguson — help put the work of the Canadian pop, rock and folk pioneers in perspective for younger viewers. Even if history isn't your favourite subject, you should be shakin' and stirred by this fine piece of work.