Cross Canada Backroads
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Cinq fuseaux horaires et demis, deux langues et une profusion de cultures ethniques et musicales tous entremêlés au cours de notre voyage à travers le Canada. On retrouve tout d'abords l'éternelle « Canadian Railroad Trilogy » de Gordon Lightfoot, un éloge aux terrassiers ayant construit un pays en joignant l'Océan atlantique et le Pacifique. Également à saveurs historiques, bien que moins joyeux, on retrouve « Acadian Driftwood » de The Band. Puis finalement « Saskatchewan » par Les Trois Accords, une triste et douce ballade des plaines. Five-and-a-half time zones, two languages, and a profusion of ethnic and musical cultures all meld in our Canadian cross-country journey. At the top is Gordon Lightfoot's immortal "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," a paean to the navvies who built a country as they joined the Atlantic and Pacific. Equally historic, though less happily so, is the setting for the Band's "Acadian Driftwood." And Les Trois Accords' "Saskatchewan" is a sad, sweet ballad of the plains.
$24.78 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot 7:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 River Joni Mitchell 4:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Runnin' Back to Saskatoon The Guess Who 3:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Four Strong Winds Ian & Sylvia 3:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Helpless Neil Young 3:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 Québec Love Robert Charlebois 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Acadian Driftwood The Band 6:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Lakeside Park Rush 4:10 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Bobcaygeon The Tragically Hip 4:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 River Joni Mitchell 4:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Backward Town The Grapes of Wrath 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Of Montreal The Stills 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Blue Canadian Rockies The Byrds 2:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Girl In Saskatoon Johnny Cash 2:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Sur le bord de la rivière rouge Mes Aïeux 4:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Boston & St. John's Great Big Sea 3:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 St. Lawrence River David Usher 4:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Edmonton Carolyn Mark 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Alberta Roots George Fox 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Manitoba Frank Black & The Catholics 4:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Montreal Blue Rodeo 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Toronto Tontos Max Webster 3:41 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 22 Songs - Next Steps
La chanson « Wheat Kings » de The Tragically Hip relative à David Milgaard faussement inculpé de meurtre, est une chanson folklorique moderne, alors que le classique folklorique « Farewell to Nova Scotia » s'est mérité un traitement de fête country par Kim Doolittle. La voix doucereuse de Margo Timmins guide le long de son arc languissant la chanson « Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy) » des Cowboy Junkies. Et la « Excursion around the Bay » du groupe Great Big Sea se compose d'ébats amusants. The Tragically Hip's "Wheat Kings," about falsely convicted murderer David Milgaard, is a modern folk song in the making, while the folk classic "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is given a country rave-up treatment by Kim Doolittle. Margo Timmins' silky-sweet voice guides the Cowboy Junkies' "Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy)" along its languid arc. And Great Big Sea's neo-shanty "Excursion around the Bay" is a fun-filled romp.
$24.48 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot 6:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Farewell to Nova Scotia Kim Doolittle 3:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Mon pays Gilles Vigneault 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Sugar Mountain (Live) Neil Young & Crazy Horse 5:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 De l'Acadie à Vancouver Rheal Poirier 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Saskatchewan Rheostatics 5:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Wheat Kings The Tragically Hip 4:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 I Love This Town Joel Plaskett 3:30 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Edmonton Green Chas & Dave 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Western Skies Blue Rodeo 4:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Uniform Grey Sarah Harmer 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy) Cowboy Junkies 3:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 One Great City! The Weakerthans 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 Kelowna The Oliver Gannon Quartet 6:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Montebello Park The Trews 3:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Port Moody Carolyn Mark, Garth Johnson, The Room-Mates & Tolan McNeil 4:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Excursion Around the Bay Great Big Sea 2:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 De Montréal à Québec Luis Mariano 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 An American Draft Dodger In Thunder Bay Sam Roberts 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Scotia Home George Canyon 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Mississauga Goddam The Hidden Cameras 5:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Canadian Sunset Andy Williams 2:36 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 22 Songs - Deep Cuts
Le bizarre hommage de B.J. (les initiales de Bertha Jean) Snowdon envers le Garden of the Gulf, de l'« Prince Edward Island » transporte peut-être pour la première fois la tradition de la musique étrangère vers le Canada atlantique. Le musicologue Dale Boyle ne laisse aucune trace d'un milieu universitaire poussiéreux dans son excellent mémoire « A Small Gaspé Town ». Et Antoine Gratton combine à part égale Michael Franks et Django Reinhardt dans « Montréal motel ». B.J. (for Bertha Jean) Snowdon's quirky tribute to the Garden of the Gulf, "Prince Edward Island," brings the tradition of outsider music to Atlantic Canada perhaps for the first time. Musicologist Dale Boyle gives no hint of dusty academia in his excellent memoir "A Small Gaspé Town." And Antoine Gratton combines equal parts Michael Franks and Django Reinhardt in "Montréal motel."
$23.37 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 Christian Island (Georgian Bay) [1988 Version] Gordon Lightfoot 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Yarmouth Town Great Big Sea 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 All Hell for a Basement Big Sugar 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 4 Short Native Grasses (Prairies of Alberta) Corb Lund Band 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Montréal motel Antoine Gratton 4:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 TransCanada A.C. Newman & Kathryn Calder 2:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Logdriver's Waltz Captain Tractor 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Galbraith Street Ron Sexsmith 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Peggy's Cove Pagan Mary 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Vancouver Jeff Buckley 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Hole On Bloor St. Chris Warren 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 A Small Gaspé Town Dale Boyle 4:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Canadian Skye Spirit of the West 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Winnipeg Martin Tielli 6:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Prince Edward Island B.J Snowden 4:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 East Coast Blues Matt Minglewood 5:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Chicoutimi Flin Flon 2:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Snow Falls In November Julie Doiron 5:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Maybe Ontario Ralph 2:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Great Lake Swimmers Great Lake Swimmers 6:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Frobisher Bay Anne Price 3:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Hurtin' Albertan Corb Lund 4:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 British Columbia The Elected 2:36 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Complete Set
Voici l'occasion pour ceux de nous n'ayant pas encore eut la possibilité d'explorer ce que Joe, dans la publicité de Molson a fameusement nommé « le deuxième plus grande pays, la première nation du hockey et la meilleure partie de l'Amérique du Nord ». On retrouve dans ces cinq fuseaux horaires et demis beaucoup de terre et beaucoup d'eau, sans oublier une profusion des cultures musicales, ethniques et artistiques. De Terre-Neuve à la Colombie-Britannique, du Yukon à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, à la fois en français et en anglais, joignez-vous à nous pendant cette excursion musicale, des rives de l'est à celles de l'ouest, de ce vigoureux pays. This is one for those of us who have not had the time or the luxury to explore what Joe in the Molson commercial so famously called "the second-largest land mass, the first nation of hockey, and the best part of North America." There's a lot of land - and a lot of water - in those five-and-a-half time zones, not to mention an expansive profusion of musical, ethnic, and artistic cultures. From Newfoundland to B.C., from the Yukon to P.E.I., both in English and en français, join us on a musical excursion (in the words of Gordon Lightfoot) "across this mighty land . . . from the eastern shore to the western strand."
$72.63 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot 7:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 River Joni Mitchell 4:04 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Runnin' Back to Saskatoon The Guess Who 3:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Four Strong Winds Ian & Sylvia 3:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 Helpless Neil Young 3:38 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 Québec Love Robert Charlebois 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Acadian Driftwood The Band 6:41 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Lakeside Park Rush 4:10 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Bobcaygeon The Tragically Hip 4:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 River Joni Mitchell 4:05 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Backward Town The Grapes of Wrath 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Of Montreal The Stills 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Blue Canadian Rockies The Byrds 2:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Girl In Saskatoon Johnny Cash 2:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Sur le bord de la rivière rouge Mes Aïeux 4:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Boston & St. John's Great Big Sea 3:47 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 St. Lawrence River David Usher 4:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 Edmonton Carolyn Mark 4:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Alberta Roots George Fox 3:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Manitoba Frank Black & The Catholics 4:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Montreal Blue Rodeo 3:17 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 Toronto Tontos Max Webster 3:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot 6:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 24 Farewell to Nova Scotia Kim Doolittle 3:26 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Mon pays Gilles Vigneault 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 26 Sugar Mountain (Live) Neil Young & Crazy Horse 5:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 27 De l'Acadie à Vancouver Rheal Poirier 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 Saskatchewan Rheostatics 5:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 29 Wheat Kings The Tragically Hip 4:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 30 I Love This Town Joel Plaskett 3:30 $1.29 View In iTunes 31 Edmonton Green Chas & Dave 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 32 Western Skies Blue Rodeo 4:21 $1.29 View In iTunes 33 Uniform Grey Sarah Harmer 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy) Cowboy Junkies 3:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 One Great City! The Weakerthans 2:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 36 Kelowna The Oliver Gannon Quartet 6:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 Montebello Park The Trews 3:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 38 Port Moody Carolyn Mark, Garth Johnson, The Room-Mates & Tolan McNeil 4:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 Excursion Around the Bay Great Big Sea 2:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 40 De Montréal à Québec Luis Mariano 2:56 $1.29 View In iTunes 41 An American Draft Dodger In Thunder Bay Sam Roberts 3:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 Scotia Home George Canyon 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 43 Mississauga Goddam The Hidden Cameras 5:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 44 Canadian Sunset Andy Williams 2:36 $0.99 View In iTunes 45 Christian Island (Georgian Bay) [1988 Version] Gordon Lightfoot 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 Yarmouth Town Great Big Sea 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 47 All Hell for a Basement Big Sugar 3:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 48 Short Native Grasses (Prairies of Alberta) Corb Lund Band 3:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 49 Montréal motel Antoine Gratton 4:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 50 TransCanada A.C. Newman & Kathryn Calder 2:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 51 The Logdriver's Waltz Captain Tractor 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 Galbraith Street Ron Sexsmith 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 53 Peggy's Cove Pagan Mary 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 54 Vancouver Jeff Buckley 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 55 Hole On Bloor St. Chris Warren 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 56 A Small Gaspé Town Dale Boyle 4:13 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Canadian Skye Spirit of the West 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 58 Winnipeg Martin Tielli 6:21 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 Prince Edward Island B.J Snowden 4:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 60 East Coast Blues Matt Minglewood 5:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 61 Chicoutimi Flin Flon 2:38 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 Snow Falls In November Julie Doiron 5:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 63 Maybe Ontario Ralph 2:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 64 Great Lake Swimmers Great Lake Swimmers 6:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 65 Frobisher Bay Anne Price 3:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Hurtin' Albertan Corb Lund 4:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 British Columbia The Elected 2:36 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 67 Songs
