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"...when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land rolls in one unbeleivable huge bulge over the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? The evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of the complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody know what's going to happen to anybody besides the foriorn rags of growing old..." - Kerouac

Busted Flat Records came into being after a summer of listening to the music of Shannon Lyon on the back porch of an old house in Kitchener, Ontario while I was refinishing some furniture. "Dharma" was in heavy rotation and after exchanging some email messages with Shannon, cds of live performances started arriving. Everyone who came to visit that summer got to hear those cds and pretty soon, talk turned to the fact that other people needed to hear them as well. More email was exchanged, a deal was struck and Busted Flat was born.

Taken from a line in "Me and Bobby McGee", Busted Flat is dedicated to releasing cds of music by passionate, honest, soulful artists.

Though an independent label, our ranks are filled with like-minded, extremely creative folks who are passionate about what they do. We would love to hear from artists who feel likewise about their art for consideration for one of our future releases. Our only criterion is that it be fabulous, honest and heartfelt.

Busted Flat who's who:
Press is manipulated by Quoi Media
Cyber-presence by Mary-Lynne Snedden
The rest of the joint is held together by Mark Logan.

We can be reached at bustedflat@rogers.com.

To any stores who are interested in carrying our releases, we are distributed acrosss Canada by Sonic Unyon / Universal.