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At a time when music venues are under attack by gentrification and development, the Horseshoe remains immortal. I’ve long wondered what those checkerboard floors would say if they could talk. Now they can.

— Alan Cross, music writer and host of the radio series

The Ongoing History of New Music

David McPherson does an amazing thing with this affectionate and informative book.… As someone who has performed there and attended countless shows over the years, it made me feel like I was a witness to something much bigger and more integral to the history of Toronto’s ever-changing music scene.

— Ron Sexsmith

David McPherson’s tall cold pour of a story left me smacking my lips, nodding my head, and feeling just fine. My recommendation: pull up a chair, drain off one chapter, then another, and the next. Before long, you’ll feel absolutely giddy about the Horseshoe and its raffishly distinguished history, Toronto, music, this excellent writer, and the whole wide world.

— Charles McNair, author of the Pulitzer Prize–nominated Land O’ Goshen

… A glorious two-handed plunge into the loam of the most famous rock and roll club in Canada; digging in the weeds to find the bones that find the ghosts who played there, from Hank Williams to Tom Connors to Frankie Venom to Townes Van Zandt and beyond.

— Dave Bidini, author of Writing Gordon Lightfoot

… The Horseshoe is Canada’s beating heart of rock ’n’ roll. David McPherson’s book does a brilliant job illustrating just that.

— Grant Lawrence, the Smugglers

David McPherson has captured the soul and the sweat, the joy and the chaos of the hands-down greatest music parlour in Canada.… From Stonewall Jackson to The Last Pogo, the spirit that is the Horseshoe lives in these pages.

— Colin Linden, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

David McPherson takes us on a wonderful journey that shows the reader why the club is called the Legendary Horseshoe and where those legends came from.

— Bernie Finkelstein, founder of True North Records

This book truly captures the vibe of the best live music venue in Canada: the sweat, the history, and most of all, the sound — and did I mention the sweat? A love song for the musical grande dame of Queen Street.

— Jay Semko, the Northern Pikes

A valuable document of the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern history.… Jack Starr’s legacy lives on!

— Josh Finlayson, Skydiggers

On the eve of its 70th birthday, author David McPherson finally tells the fabled club’s story.

— Rob Bowman, Grammy Award–winning author and professor