Big Sugar

Formed in 1988, Big Sugar is a blues-rock project primarily based around its vocalist and guitarist, Gordie Johnson. The Canadian outfit came together in Toronto, where Johnson and the rest of the band's founding members had already been casually performing in groups together beforehand. Big Sugar's engaging mix of vintage rock and roll, electric blues and old-school garage rock made the band a hit in Ontario, and soon throughout the rest of Canada as well. The group broke up temporarily in 2004 but reformed again in 2010, releasing a new album entitled Revolution Per Minute just a year later.