Classic Canadian Songs from Smithsonian/Folkways

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  • Release Date: 06/27/2006
  • Sales Rank: 82,388
  • Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
  • UPC: 093074053928

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Classic Canadian Songs from Smithsonian/Folkways

1LISTENLes Fraises et Les Framboises/Le Festin de Champagne/Ah! Si Mon Moine ... / Jean Carignan 4:02
2LISTENLord Macdonald's Reel / Jean Carignan 2:29
3LISTENThe Land of the Muskeg (And the Shining Birch Tree) / Wade Hemsworth 2:41
4LISTENCree Greeting Song (Also Known as Shaking Hands Song) / William Peaychew 2:03
5LISTENLe Reel de l'Harmonica (Also Known as Reel de Rimouski) / Aldor Morin 2:35
6LISTENThe Northern Trappers' Rendezvous / Loewen Family Orchestra 2:51
7LISTENThe Alberta Homesteader / Alan Mills 2:34
8LISTENA Poor Lone Girl in Saskatchewan / Anne Halderman 3:30
9LISTENWhen the Ice Worms Nest Again / Alan Mills 1:17
10LISTENThe Oda G. / Stanley G. Triggs 2:26
11LISTENThe Ballad of Weldon Chan / Karen James 2:20
12LISTENChanson de Riel / Gaspard Jeannote 2:14
13LISTENTim Finnegan's Wake / Tom Kines 2:13
14LISTENI's the B'y / Alan Mills 1:11
15LISTENTonts, Tonts! / Ruth Rubin 1:28
16LISTENThe Welcome Table / Charles Owens 2:16
17LISTENThe Heel and Toe Polka / Arbuckle, Mikkelson & Clifton 1:59
18LISTENCree Prisoner's Song / William Burn Stick 2:21
19LISTENUn Canadian Errant / Alan Mills 2:27
20LISTENMaggie Howie / Geraldine Sullivan 2:57
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Smithsonian Folkways tackles the "Great White North" with its 72-minute ode to trappers, traders, and vagabonds with Classic Canadian Songs. Like all SF collections, the heavily researched liner notes and archival photos are as compelling as the tracks themselves -- it's hard not to love a record adorned with an old black-and-white picture of a group of distinguished looking ladies and gentlemen perched upon a frozen pond holding hockey sticks -- and they do wonders for putting some perspective on the musical melting pot that's been boiling over since the second biggest country in the world by area was colonized by the British and the French in the 1400s. Celtic and French reels, songs of the Cree, square dances, cowboy ballads, and seafaring odes to loves both won and lost populate this fine anthology, which is book-ended by a festive trapper drinking song and a series of "Moose and Bear Calls." Folkways fans will find these Classic Canadian Songs to be a fine addition to their collections. Reverend Lee Power, All Music Guide

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