canada's most successful rock artists by the late 1980s have worked in a relatively generic, mainstream pop rock style of the day. some from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, may be ascribed to more specific substyles like colin james, david wilcox and jeff healey to blues-rock (see canadian blues). with stompin' tom connors, great big sea and ashley macisaac to folk rock, that saw the start for both styles, a very large following all across canada. most notable would be stompin' tom connors who typically wrote about canadian lore and history, some of connors' better-known songs include big joe mufferaw, the black donnellys, reesor crossing tragedy, sudbury saturday night and the hockey song (aka "the good old hockey game"), that is frequently played over sound systems at national hockey league (nhl) games in both canada and the united states.