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Infobox musical artist | | name = Hemingway Corner| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Toronto , Ontario , Canada | genre = Folk music|Folk / Rock music|Rock | years_active = start date|1992–end date|1996| label = Sony Records|Sony | associated_acts = Beat Prophets| website =| current_members = David Martin (musician)|David Martin Scott Dibble Mark Sterling| past_members = Johnny Douglas Hemingway Corner was a Canadian - United States|American folk rock|folk pop group, active in the 1990s.
Biography
The group was formed in 1992 by two established singer-songwriter s, David Martin and Johnny Douglas. Martin, from Atlanta, Georgia , was a musician and songwriter who lived in Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville before moving to Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles . Douglas, from Toronto , was working as a session songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville . The two met while writing songs for Sony Music and released their self-titled debut album in 1993. They had hits on the Canadian pop charts with "Man on a Mission" and "Love, Love, Love", and received a Juno Awards of 1996|Juno Award nomination for " Juno Award for New Group of the Year|Best New Group " in 1996. Choosing to return to his independent songwriting work, Douglas left the band the following year and would start another band called Beat Prophets.
While working on a Neil Young tribute album, Borrowed Tunes: A Tribute to Neil Young|Borrowed Tunes , the Skydiggers introduced Martin to Scott Dibble (from the Toronto band Watertown) and Mark Sterling from Edmonton . They would record their own cover song on the tribute album, "Tell Me Why" as a newly revamped Hemingway Corner. With some material already written by Dibble and Sterling, the band released a follow-up album, Under the Big Sky in 1995. Three more singles hit the charts including "Big Sky", "Tell Me Why" and "Watch Over You" (featured on an episode of Party of Five ), before the band dissolved in late 1996.
Martin is still an active songwriter, having penned tunes for Edwin (musician)|Edwin the ex-lead singer for I MotherEarth , including co-writing the hit "Alive" from Edwin's debut Edwin (musician)|Another Spin Around the Sun and playing on the follow-up album Edwin (musician)|Edwin & the Pressure , and writing for country singer Tara Lyn Hart .
Mark Sterling is also actively songwriting having released three solo albums, including his self-titled debut (1996), The Well (1999) and Take From It What You Need (2009); he also worked with young country singer Adam Gregory for his debut album '' The Way I'm Made .
Jackson, Rick. Encyclopedia of Canadian rock, pop and folk (1994). pg. 135-136. Quarry Press
http://www.ink19.com/issues_F/99_08/wet_ink/music_qs/173_mark_sterling.shtml Mark Sterling's debut - Ink 19, FL USA 1999 article
http://www.seemagazine.com/Issues/1999/0408/kirby.htm Martin & Sterling songwriting activity - See Magazine, 1999 article
External links
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/H/Hemingway_Corner.html Hemingway Corner - JAM& #33; Canadian Pop Encyclopedia entry
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/D/Dibble_Scott.html Scott Dibble - JAM& #33; Canadian Pop Encyclopedia bio
http://www.albertascene.ca/en/events/eventDetails.asp? eventID=15 Mark Sterling - Alberta Scene bio
http://www.myspace.com/marksterling69 Mark Sterling - myspace
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