Errol ranville biography books
Errol's autobiography Run as One is filled with love and passion as he embraces the role of trailblazer for the countless musicians that follow his path.
Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug addiction;..
Picking his battles
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Winnipeg musician Errol Ranville’s autobiography, Run as One: My Story is a compelling and honest account of his life’s ups and downs.
Ranville is best known as the lead singer of the C-Weed Band, a group he and his brothers Randy, Wally and Don formed in the mid-1960s when Errol was a young teen.
The brothers, their eight siblings and parents Emile and Mary lived in a small house in Eddystone.
Ranville recalls often being hungry, and his parents often having to rely on the local grocer’s charity to run a tab.
He wasn’t very interested in school, but was fascinated by country and early rock music he heard on the radio, as well as by musicians he saw performing on TV.
Ranville says the pain of the poverty he experienced disappeared when he listened to music: “music b