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A Million Dollars (WORD)
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YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE VIDEO! Thanks to Sharon Hiebert for suggesting this song for BUG!
Joel Plaskett and his band, the Emergency, have been roundly celebrated within the music industry for their work, racking up awards and nominations from the JUNOs, the Polaris Music Prize, the East Coast Music Awards, Music Nova Scotia, and numerous others.
In May 2011, Joel Plaskett became the first artist ever to reach one million plays on CBC Radio 3's online music streaming site, and released an exclusive acoustic version of "Nowhere with You" to the network for the occasion (that song is on our website too!). In June 2011 , Joel Plaskett released a B-sides and rarities compilation titled EMERGENCYs, false alarms, shipwrecks, castaways, fragile creatures, special features, demons and demonstrations 1999 - 2010, and "A Million Dollars" is was one of those songs, written in 2005.
William Joel MacDonald Plaskett (born in Lunenburg NS - April 18, 1975) is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a member of Halifax alternative rock band Thrush Hermit in the 1990s. Plaskett performs in a number of genres, from blues and folk to hard rock, country, and pop. Plaskett's songwriting frequently contains allusions to his home city, Halifax. With his band The Emergency, he has toured throughout North America and Europe with The Tragically Hip, Sloan, Bill Plaskett (his father), and Kathleen Edwards.