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Photo By PETR MAUR
Photo By JOHN CHARLES GARNER
Sneezy Waters To Hank and back
By JIM HURCOMB I finally found how Peter Hodgson became
“Sneezy Waters”. But really, it’s a pretty dull story, clouded in
the mists of time and probably a few too many drinks. So we’ll let you ask him yourself if you run
across the Ottawa singer at one of his shows. Sneezy Waters is to the Ottawa folk scene
what Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams were to American folk and country music. He’s always been there, either on stage as a solo act, with his Excellent Band, starring in “Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave”, or just playing on a street corner for nickels and dimes. Before we get to that, let’s hit the rewind
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button, back to the days when Sneezy, a baby who “could sing before he could talk”, became immersed in the earliest days of the Ottawa folk music scene. He became a regular at all three locations of Le Hibou, going back to the Rideau Street location. It was there he met Neville Wells and other music hounds who had caught the folk music bug. “I believe I was the first guy in Ottawa to
buy a Bob Dylan album,” he remembers. “I went down to the Bank Street Treble Clef store, and they showed me this new album that had just come in. I looked at it, flipped it over, saw ‘Song to Woody’, and I thought, geez, this guy knows who Woody Guthrie is!” Within a few years most Ottawa folk fans
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