Stompin Tom Connors - Souvenirs-25 Of The Best (1998)

Stompin' Tom Connors, the most successful country artist in Canadian history and Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors to you, received an honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Toronto in the year 2000, and this was not the only award bestowed upon the board-stomping fellow that year he also received a Governor's General Performing Arts Award. This and the doctorate were among the first awards that Connors didn't ship back, as he has done with six Juno Awards for Male Country Singer of the Year, and a 1998 Lifetime Achievement prize at the East Coast Music Awards. The Juno trophies, Canada's equivalent of a Grammy, were packed up and sent back to the office, because Connors said he never asked for them, while he asked that the Lifetime Achievement Award be re-dedicated to unsung heroes of the Canadian Maritime music industry. Connors wrote "...for all the folks out there who quit the business a long time ago, I ask for them to write in and let the people know the work they have done, their recordings, and the bands they were in. I would like that list to go along with this award."