Brad Johner

Brad Johner is a Canadian country music singer.

Biography

Brad Johner grew up in Saskatchewan playing music in his family band. When he was 16, Brad won a National Talent Contest during Country Music Week in Hamilton in 1982. He spent six years maintaining his solo career before teaming up with his brother Ken to form The Johner Brothers in 1988. After 14 years, six albums (including their Greatest Hits), 26 singles, one Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) award and more than 40 awards from the Saskatchewan Country Music Association (SCMA), including Entertainer of the Decade, Ken decided to retire from the music business to pursue other interests in 2002.

Brad wasn't ready to hang it up yet, and returned to his solo career. He moved to Saskatoon with his wife Rhea and their five sons to begin work on his first solo album with producer Bart McKay. The album, Free, was released by Royalty Records in 2003. The album was nominated for Album of the Year by the CCMA and the Juno Awards, and won Outstanding Country Album at the 2003 Western Country Music Awards. In 2004, the Canadian Independent Music Awards named Johner Favourite Country Artist/Group of the Year. Brad won Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2003 SCMA, along with Single and Song of the Year for "Hello." He cleaned up the following year at the SCMA ceremonies, winning Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year. "Free" was named Song, Single and Video of the Year, and Free won Album of the Year. His backup band, the Brad Johner Band, won Backup Band of the Year.

Go-Back

The Go-Backs are a tribe of elves in the comic series Elfquest. They named themselves from their goal to return to the Palace of the High Ones. They are hunters (probably gatherers, too) and, above all, warriors. Most of them care neither for the past nor for the future. They are the only known tribe that scorns magic - especially healing magic, since knowing that a healer is around makes warriors 'soft'. Their most notable tradition is dancing for their death.

In the series Kahvi it is revealed that the Go-Backs were originally a splinter group of the Wolfriders, who had lost their wolf blood "because of Willowgreen's trickery." What exactly that looked like, or how exactly the Go-Backs became stag-riders and searchers for the palace, are yet untold stories. (A prose story about the healer Willowgreen and her "trickery" was to appear in the book "Hunter's Dawn" in the mid-1990s, but that volume was repeatedly delayed, then canceled.)

When the Go-Backs tried to return to the Palace, they were stopped by the Ice Trolls, who assumed that once the elves were reinstalled in the Palace they would enslave the trolls as their ancestors had. War ensued between the two groups and was underway when the Go-Backs rescued the Wolfriders and forged an alliance with them.

Go Back

Go Back is the first live album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs, and the only one that has not been linked to MTV. It was recorded at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival. The band was introduced as: "Titãs, the best Brazilian rock band, welcome to Montreaux, Titãs!" by the presenter of the festival, as can be heard on the very beginning of the first track.

Album cover

The front and back covers of the album feature pictures of all Titãs members when they were children. Nando Reis is in the upper left picture of the front cover, and going clockwise, the next is Sergio Britto, Tony Bellotto and Paulo Miklos. As for the back cover, starting with the upper left picture and going clockwise: Marcelo Fromer, Branco Mello, Arnaldo Antunes, and Charles Gavin.

Track listing

Personnel

Go Back (song)

"Go Back" is a single by Titãs, released in 1984. After not reaching success, Titãs released in 1988 a live and a remix versions as singles, both extracted from the album Go Back (ao vivo). These achieved moderate success.

A music video, based in an edited version of the 1988 remix, was recorded and exhibited massively in television. It shows the eight members of the band in daily situations, and children in a park. It counts 3:45 and was directed by Jodele Larcher and Branco Mello.

In 1997, it was released in the album Acústico MTV in Spanish, featuring Fito Páez.

In 2010, Titãs rerecorded the song once more, with production by Rick Bonadio, counting 4'00". This version was released in the soundtrack CD 1 to the Rede Globo's telenovela Ti Ti Ti (2010).

Track listing

All lyrics written by Sérgio Britto and Torquato Neto, except for "Sonífera Ilha", which was written by Marcelo Fromer, Branco Mello, Tony Bellotto, Ciro Pessoa and Carlos Barmack. 

Cover versions