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- ↑ "Lost Dakotas find popularity with earthy approach to music". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , March 5, 1993.
- ↑ "But does it beat busking?". The Globe and Mail , February 22, 1994.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Dakotas get off street ... and hit highway". Toronto Star , March 11, 1993.
- 1 2 3 "Gregarious Greg McConnell", The Globe and Mail , May 19, 1999.
- 1 2 3 "Lost Dakotas found some raunch on new CD". Ottawa Citizen , January 20, 1994.
- ↑ "Pigfarm drummer didn't miss a beat". Edmonton Journal , May 10, 1994.
- 1 2 "Lost Dakotas find new sound going un-unplugged". Edmonton Journal , December 6, 1994.
- ↑ "AIDS benefit concert goes over big 3 ways". Toronto Star , September 6, 1993.
- ↑ "How EMI signed busker Bob Rags-to-records tale brings Snider to Yellow Door". Montreal Gazette , November 4, 1995.
- ↑ "Scott B. Sympathy lets in a little light". Brantford Expositor , May 23, 2002.
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