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This CD honours the
legacy of the renowned folk song collector Phil Thomas. The materials on
this compilation were drawn primarily from the collection of songs he
gathered through field recordings and years of research into the musical
heritage of the Pacific Northwest. During his life, as musician and
teacher, he became a passionate and leading exponent of folk music on the
northwest coast; and was largely responsible for disseminating this
heritage, through publications and performance, to a diverse array of
performers who now 'carry the torch'. Captured here, then, are the
spirited performances of 40 musicians from all over the Pacific Northwest
who, in arranging and representing this material, demonstrate the integral
link between the folk song collector and the community he serves. Taken
together, these performances offer a valuable insight into the mainstay of
the folk music tradition; namely, the venerable art of sharing. It was
Phil's heartfelt mission to keep this heritage alive by handing back to us
our own stories; and his tools were simply the mechanism of singing and
sharing.
Cariboo Road Music
and Skookumchuck Services Ltd. gratefully acknowledges the participation
of Steve Edge and The Rogue Folk Club, Julius Fisher of workingtv (workingtv.com),
the Vancouver Folk Song Society, Goldrush and Spin Digital Media Corp.
* The following tracks are not in 'Songs of the Pacific Northwest' [Second Edition] by Philip J. Thomas. These are: Another Grand Hotel - J.S. MacEachern; Kettle Valley Line - E. Hay; Lardeau Valley Waltz - S.G. Triggs; Sailor Boy - Traditional; I Remember Loving You - L. del Puppo; Days Like This - H.L. Thomas; Home, Dear Home - J. Lyon; Homesick Trapper: found poem set to tune - S.G. Triggs; Way Out West in Alberta - B. Baldwin; Skookum Wind Waltz - J.S. MacEachern; The Day They Shot Ginger Down - G. Carter. Expanded histories and illustrations of all other songs are in the book, archived at University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections Library (www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll). |
NEW dual-CD Release Now Off the Presses Songs of the Pacific Northwest ~ A Tribute
...with the final public performance by Phil Thomas Featuring 40 Northwest Musicians singing 37 songs from the PJ Thomas Collection |
The Performers
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SONG
LIST 1. Another Grand Hotel*..............................BC Phil-Harmonic 2. Bank Trollers....................................................Phil Thomas 3. Bring Back that Gill Net to Me .................BC Phil-Harmonic 4. Kettle Valley Line*..................................Kettle Valley Liners 5. Teaming Up the Cariboo Road...............Kettle Valley Liners 6. The Banks of the Similkameen........................Paddy Graber 7. Lardeau Valley Waltz ©*.......Stanley G. Triggs & Barry Hall 8. Sailor Boy ¯*.....Lynn McGown, Michael Pratt & Barry Hall 9. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Ë..................................Fraser Union 10.Far From Home°......................................Simon Trevelyan 11.I'm Only a Broken-Down Mucker° ........Kettle Valley Liners 12.Bury Me Not*°.......................Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat 13.Bowsers Seventy-Twa°...........Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat 14.I Remember Loving You*°.......................Kendall & Baines 15.Hilda's Song (Days Like This)*°............Mildred Jane Baines 16.Home, Dear Home*° ..........................................John Lyon 17.The Wreck of the C.P.Yorke° .................................Al Cox 18.The Grand Hotel°......Simon Kendall & Mildred Jane Baines
1. The Song of the Sockeye....Michael Pratt & Craig McGregor 2. The Greenchain Song...........Michael Pratt & Lynn McGown 3. The Trucker Driver's Song Ë............................Fraser Union 4. Hard Rock Miner Ë..........................................Fraser Union 5. The Potlatch Fair..................................................Barry Hall 6. The Young British Rancher........Phil Thomas with Barry Hall 7. Haywire Outfit...........................Phil Thomas with Barry Hall 8. Taku Miners........................Teresa Gagne & Denis Laplante 9. Way Up in the Monashee Range.....................Paddy Graber 10.Skookum Wind Waltz*...........................BC Phil-Harmonic 11.Young Man from Canada..........................................Tarkin 12.The Minto ..............................................................Tarkin 13.Are You From Bevan ...............Kendall/Beddoes/ Van Eyes 14.Old Go-Hungry Hash House......Kendall/Beddoes/Van Eyes 15.Homesick Trapper*......................................Rika Ruebsaat 16.Know Ye the Land..................Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat 17.Way Out West in Alberta*.......Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat 18.The Day They Shot Ginger Down*.....................The Diggers 19.Where the Fraser River Flows.............................The Diggers
* Songs from the PJ Thomas Collection not in the book All other songs recorded at the November 2006 Tribute Concert |
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Songs of the Pacific Northwest REVISED & ENLARGED [2007] Philip J. Thomas Edited by Jon Bartlett Music transcription/notation by Shirley A. Cox |
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* The following tracks on the compilation CD are not in 'Songs of the Pacific Northwest' [Second Edition] by Philip J Thomas.
These are: Another Grand Hotel - JS MacEachern; Kettle Valley Line - E Hay; Lardeau Valley Waltz - SG Triggs; Sailor Boy - Traditional; I Remember Loving You - L del Puppo; Days Like This - HL Thomas; Home, Dear Home - J Lyons; Homesick Trapper: found poem set to tune - SG Triggs; Way Out West in Alberta - B Baldwin; Skookum Wind Waltz - JS MacEachern; The Day They Shot Ginger Down - Gordon Carter. Expanded histories and illustrations of all other songs are in the book, archived at University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections Library (www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll).
