PRAISE FOR
I Am My Father’s Son

“Dan Hill’s book is a revelation—a wonderfully written memoir that reveals such profound humanity and sensitivity in dealing with the complexities of love, hate, competition and pride within a family… . Simultaneously, Dan chronicles the lures and pitfalls of the music business, generously sharing his entanglements in the shark-infested waters that many creative artists have to navigate… . I couldn’t put the book down.”

— Liona Boyd

“A compulsively readable memoir. It is a fine contribution not just to Canadian showbiz lore but to our country’s social history. Dan Hill dishes lots of fascinating backstage gossip … [but] also strikes universal chords.”

— Winnipeg Free Press

“Inevitably, Hill’s musical sensibility infuses his prose… . The story has a musical pulse, an exactness of comedic timing. Like his father and brother … Dan Hill possesses the gift of storytelling, in the broad, oral, African-American tradition.”

— Ottawa Citizen

“I Am My Father’s Son is insightful, warm and touching. Dan Hill has done a terrific job of capturing a father who was obviously a complex, proud and difficult man, not always capable of expressing his deep love and admiration for his children.”

— Joy Fielding

“A page-turning memoir that hits all the right notes from the first page to the last.”

— Linwood Barclay

“[I Am My Father’s Son] jolts us, like hearing a soon-to-be-classic song for the first time… . The book uses the glitz of the 1970s music scene as a backdrop for a soul-searching story of a father and a son.”

— National Post

“[Dan Hill’s] raw memoir, I Am My Father’s Son, [is] a searing examination of his relationship with Daniel Grafton Hill III.”

— Toronto Star

“Dan Hill’s currency in his music has always been his absolute honesty… . A great read and O’Neillesque study on the dynamic between the father and the son, by one of Canada’s most successful songwriters … . fascinating!”

— Tom Cochrane