Gerry Muholland has worked at Bert's Music since the beginning. When the store, Ideal Service, went up for sale, he bought it with fellow employee Gerry Muholland. LePage loved music, but he also studied electronics repair at the community college in Campbellton and did training at a local business. At 18, he joined his first band, touring the region. He grew up in White's Brook, a small community near Kedgwick.Īt 10 years old, he picked up the guitar after being inspired by his sister. An unexpected opportunityīert LePage never planned to open the biggest music store in northern New Brunswick.
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It offers practice rooms and space for lessons.Īnd behind the store, there's a full workshop for repairing instruments. In the back of the building is a music school. The wall behind the counter is covered with hanging packets of guitar strings. There's also a rack with dozens of sheet music books and a selection of sound systems. It sells acoustic and electric guitars, ukuleles, violins, mandolins, keyboards and drum sets. The shop is neatly packed full of almost everything a musician could need. He can't find a successor to take over the region's only full-service music shop. The album was re-released in November 2015 as In the Lonely Hour (Drowning Shadows Edition), which features 12 new tracks, including the Disclosure single "Omen" (which features vocals from Smith), the Comic Relief version of "Lay Me Down" featuring John Legend, and covers of Whitney Houston's How Will I Know and Amy Winehouse's "Love Is a Losing Game".Duration 2:50 Owner Bert LePage is preparing to retire after 40 years. In the Lonely Hour also received a nomination for Best British Album at the 2015 Brit Awards the accolade ultimately went to Ed Sheeran for x. It was nominated for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, winning the latter and losing to Morning Phase by Beck in the former. It was the second best-selling album of 2014 in the UK, and the third best-selling of 2014 in the United States. The album was a commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and the United Kingdom. When In the Lonely Hour was released, it received mostly lukewarm reviews from critics, many of whom praised Smith's singing but were critical of the songwriting. A deluxe edition of the album contains five bonus tracks, including a solo acoustic version of Disclosure's single "Latch" and Naughty Boy's number-one single "La La La", on both of which Smith provided guest vocals. The album's third hit single, "I'm Not the Only One", reached number three in the UK and number five in the US. The album includes the hit singles "Money on My Mind" and "Stay with Me", both of which were number one in the UK the latter becoming a hit worldwide, peaking in the top ten in over 20 countries, including reaching number two in the US. In the United States, it was released on 17 June 2014 through Capitol Records America. It was released in the United Kingdom on, via Capitol UK and Method Records. In the Lonely Hour is the debut studio album by English singer Sam Smith.