"Canada Rocks" is the most comprehensive study of the history of Canadian music that has ever been created. It is an album by album, artist by artist, year by year record of the history of LP and EP releases from the early 1940's up until 1989, when the compact disc medium took over and left vinyl behind for a time. This is the second volume (1972-1979) and includes all of the established artists from the 1940's until the seventies, and all of the new artists and bands of the decade in the various continuing genres and new ones of Canadian music, such as classical and jazz greats Ed Bickert, Paul Bley, Liona Boyd, Paul Brodie, The Climax Jazz Band, Mychael Danna, Percy Faith, Maynard Ferguson, Serge Fontane, Andre Gagnon, Glenn Gould, Moe Koffman, Claude Leveillee, Rob McConnell, Phil Nimmons, and Oscar Peterson, country artists Keath Barrie, Smiley Bates, Edith Butler, Canadian Zephyr, Wilf Carter, Edouard Castonguay, Cooper Brothers, Andy Dejarlis, Good Brothers, Ray Griff, Marie King, Tex Lecor, Marcel Martel, Ronnie Prophet, Hank Snow, and Ian Tyson, folk and singer/songwriters Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Lisa Dal Bello, Gordon Lightfoot, Ray Materick, Murray McLauchlan, Joni Mitchell, Bob Ruzicka, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ian Tamblyn, Ken Tobias, Sylvia Tyson, Valdy, and Neil Young, classic rock and blues bands and musicians A Foot In Cold Water, April Wine, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Band, Blood Sweat & Tears, Charlee, Chilliwack, David Clayton-Thomas, Crowbar, Burton Cummings, Doucette, Downchild Blue Band, Dr. Music, Bobby Edwards, Edward Bear, Five Man Electrical Band, Fludd, Fosterchild, Nick Gilder, The Guess Who, Harlequin, The Hometown Band, Jackson Hawke, John Kay, King Biscuit Boy, Lighthouse, Lynx, Dutch Mason, McKenna Mendelson Mainline, Moxy, Offenbach, Prism, Red Rider, Rough Trade, Stampeders, Steppenwolf, Sweeney Todd, Teaze, Ian Thomas, Pat Travers, Domenic Troiano, and Trooper, the electronic greats Mort Garson, Bruce Haack, John Mills-Cockell, and Nash The Slash, psychedelic bands Champignons, Christmas, Dionysos, Perth County Conspiracy, and Ptarmigan, progressive rock bands Aerial, Aquarelle, Aut'Chose, Beau Dommage, Breche, Bregent, CANO, Contraction, Dillinger, FM, Garfield, Garolou, Harmonium, Maniege, Max Webster, Morse Code, Octobre, Pollen, Rush, Saga, Seguin, Ville Emard Blues Band, and Zon, hard rockers Fist, Goddo, Hammersmith, Helix, Hellfield, Mahogany Rush, Triumph, and Warpig, R&B, soul and disco artists Boule Noire, Charity Brown, Crack Of Dawn, Hydro, Chantal Pary, Toulouse, the punk originators Battered Wives, The Diodes, The Imps, and Teenage Head, and pop stars Tommy Ambrose, Paul Anka, The Bells, Paul Brunelle, Robert Charlebois, Renee Claude, Bobby Curtola, Claude Dubois, Robert Goulet, Dan Hill, Pauline Julien, Andy Kim, Michel Louvain, Jacques Michel, Anne Murray, and Gino Vanelli, and so many, many more. One album wonders or artists like Oscar Peterson, who have recorded more than two hundred records. They are all in here, each and every studio album by most all of the Canadian artists and musicians from the early forties to 1971. You'll never find a more comprehensive source of information on the history of Canadian music than in this three volume set. Be sure to get parts I and III as well, and discover all of Canada's greatest, right up until 1989.