Scott Bradshaw, who records as Scott B. Sympathy, is a Canadian

Canada

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 indie rock

Indie rock

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 musician. He released several albums with his eponymously-named band in the 1990s, and subsequently became a member of Stratochief

Stratochief

Stratochief is a Canadian alternative country band.The band was originally formed by Greg McConnell, following the breakup of his earlier band, Lost Dakotas. Vaughan Passmore and Johnny Trash, McConnell's 1980s bandmates in Absolute Whores, joined McConnell in the new band.The band's debut album,...

 following the 1999 death of that band's singer Greg McConnell

Greg McConnell

Greg McConnell was a Canadian indie rock musician, who was a member of the alternative country bands Absolute Whores , Lost Dakotas and Stratochief....

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The name "Scott B. Sympathy" was originally intended as the name of the band, with his own stage name simply being "Scott B." However, this was so frequently misunderstood by fans and music journalists that when crediting the band's 1996 album Long Way Down to "The Sympathy" still failed to resolve the confusion, Bradshaw eventually relented and adopted "Scott B. Sympathy" as his own stage name.

His debut album, 1990's Neil Yonge Street, was titled with a pun

Pun

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 combining Toronto, Ontario's Yonge Street

Yonge Street

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 with the name of one of Bradshaw's idols, Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

. His final solo album, "Unfinished Sympathy", was also titled with a pun, referencing Schubert's famous "Unfinished Symphony

Unfinished Symphony

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". (The album title bears no relation to Massive Attack's 1991 single called "Unfinished Sympathy", which Bradshaw was unaware of at the time of the album's release.)

In 2010, he was playing in a duo with former Sympathy member, slide guitarist Gord Cumming, under the name "Massey Harris".

He had one notable hit on the Canadian charts, "Drinking With the Poet" in 1993.

Discography

Scott B. Sympathy

• Neil Yonge Street (1990)
• Drinking With the Poet (1993)
• Long Way Down (1996)
• Unfinished Sympathy (1999)

Stratochief

• In Search of the Seven Foot Woman (2002)