[mplpost] Canada - A Folkie History?

[Second Avenue]

>Tom Miller wrote:
>
> Songs for the railway...
>         Once upon a Railrod - Ian Tamblyn
>         Canadian Railroad Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
>         Rolling Home Canadian - Eileen McGann


and "Spike" - Jim Layeux

Take care,

Lisa

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The recent thread about Canadian Traditional songs, along with my
> watching several episodes of `Canada, A People's History' last night,
> brought back the thought that there is so much good music they COULD
> have used for the series.... I put together a short wish list, mostly
> from my own collextion, but I'm sure the group can add many more
> suggestions.
> 
> My list is heavily weighted with Tamarack, Tanglefoot and Stan Rogers,
> but that's because my collection is weighted that way 8-)
> 
> 1576 - Frobisher Bay - Tamarack (I know it's not strictly about Martin
> Frobisher's voyages, but close enough)
> 
> Voyageur period - La V'la M'amie - Tanglefoot
> 
> 1755 - I think `Evangeline' by The Band & Emmylou Harris on `The Last
> Waltz' is about the Acadian Expulsion...?
> 
> 1759 - Brave Wolfe - Martin Carthy (Non-Canadian singer, but perfect
> song for the event)
> 
> 1775-1813
> Fire & Guns - Tanglefoot
> Loyal She Remains - Tamarack
> McDonnel on the Heights - Stan Rogers
> The Nancy - Stan Rogers
> Laura Secord - Tanglefoot
> 
> 1845 - Lord Franklin - Eileen McGann, Tamarack, Martin Carthy again (or
> many other versions)
>      - Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers
> 
> 1870 - Red River Rising - James Keelaghan (is this really about the 1870
> rebellion?)
> 
> 1885 - The Last Battle - Bill Gallaher & Jake Galbraith
> 
> 1914 - Hillcrest Mine - James Keelaghan
> 
> 1917 - Vimy - Tanglefoot
> 
> 1927 - The song about the Peace Tower by Bobby Watt (don't know the full
> title, but heard him sing it last year at Goderich)
> 
> 1944 - Walcheren Causeway - Jack Whyte (I heard this on Max Ferguson
> years ago - a poem by the official poet of the Calgary Highlanders)
> 
> 1975 - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
> 

>         Canadian Pacific - Hank Snow
> 
> There must be dozens of others - any suggestions??
> 
> Cheers
> Tom
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