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- ↑ Biography of Bill Durst; billdurstband.com. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- ↑ Jack Richardson Music Awards – 2006 Hall of Fame Inductee Archived 4 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 2013-11-02.
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- ↑ Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013 Program Archived 6 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine ; montrealjazzfest.com. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ Jack Richardson Music Awards, List of 2014 Award Recipients Archived 20 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine ; Retrieved 2014-10-15.
- ↑ "Welcome to the Official Bill Durst Website - Discography". Archived from the original on 6 February 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.