Owner-operator and songwriter Mike Murchison
Age: 60
"I was born in Sydney, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. It's a beautiful place, but it's cold as hell. I hope to retire there one day.
"There was always music being played there, lots of little clubs. Someone would have an accordion. Someone would have a fiddle. They would sing about fishing, logging, drinking. There were gospel songs. That's where I got a lot of it from.
"But Ian Tyson's stuff is what I fell in love with. Tyson is a true dyed-in-the-wool cowboy. Four strong winds. Last I heard, he was still in Longview raising cattle and cutting horses.
"When I was eleven years old I split my head wide open running to school. Shortly after that, I came down with epilepsy. We moved to Alberta when I was 17. That's when I began to play guitar. I’ve got a Fender FJ 70, a mandolin, a dobro, a twelve string, all self-taught. I guess you’d call it Americana. The only two things I know are trucking and music.”
Mike Murchison's Pete.
