Blue Shadows Soldier of Love ( Lay Down Your Arms)

Former childhood superstar Billy Cowsill of Cowsills fame, toured Canada for a few years in the 80s with the band Blue Northern, putting out one album. He then led his own act, The Billy Cowsill Band, which was merely him and Spanier (The Bonus Boys) playing traditional country songs. They expanded to a fourpiece with the addition of Jay Johnson (The Bonus Boys) and Jeffery Hatcher (also a veteran of the Winnipeg scene with such bands as The Fuse, The Six and Jeffrey Hatcher The Big Beat.