The much-delayed CanFolk Mixtape

[commodorified]

I meant to post this much sooner, and also to annotate it fetchingly and informatively, but it's been a bit mad around here, even before I got sick, and while I am much improved I'm still wheezy and achy and not at my most clever.

If you ask me about particular tracks, though, that will doubtless trigger comments - it's sitting down and doing the whole thing unprompted that's beyond me. So please do; I have Things To Say.

My definition of folk music is rather loose; my definition of Canadian considerably more strict.

CanFolk2015: 47 songs, one for each voter in the mixtape poll.

*blows smooches*

Sleepy Maggie: Ashley MacIsaac
Light Enough to Travel: The Be Good Tanyas
La Complainte du Phoque en Alaska: Beau Dommage
Sleep In Late: Big Sugar
You Can Come From Here: Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
The Coldest Night Of The Year: Bruce Cockburn
Logdriver's Waltz: Captain Tractor
Black Eyed Susan: Doug McArthur
Merlin: Doug McArthur and Garnet Rogers
Henry Martin: Figgy Duff
Summer Lightning: Garnet Rogers with Doug Long
Early Morning Rain: Gordon Lightfoot
I'se the B'y: Great Big Sea
Lukey: Great Big Sea
Dondaine: Groovy Aardvark
Cold Missouri Waters: James Keelaghan
Turn Of The Wheel: James Keelaghan
Hockey: Jane Siberry
Love Is Everything: Jane Siberry
Lay Your Burden Down: Jennifer Noxon
Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Joni Mitchell
Helpless: k.d. lang
A Case Of You: k.d. lang
Little Boxes (Petites Boites): Kate & Anna McGarrigle
C'est Une Jeune Mariée: Le Vent Du Nord
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen
Dance Me To The End Of Love: Leonard Cohen
The Highwayman: Loreena McKennitt
Temagami Round: Marie-Lynn Hammond
I Don't Sleep With Strangers Anymore: Marie-Lynn Hammond
Leonard Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In: Nancy White
Old Man: Neil Young
Helpless: Neil Young
Gold In Them Hills: Ron Sexsmith
Save This House: Spirit Of The West
The Old Sod: Spirit of the West
Rolling Down To Old Maui: Stan Rogers
Fisherman's Wharf: Stan Rogers
The Nancy: Stan Rogers
The Assassin's Apprentice: Stephen Fearing
Sudbury Saturday Night: Stompin' Tom Connors
The Coal Boat Song: Stompin' Tom Connors
Billy In the Lowground: Stringband
Tugboats: Stringband
Fox - Tiriganiak: Tagaq
Carey - Universal Honey
Deeper Well: The Wailin' Jennys

Comments

[sharpiefan]

Rollin' Down to Old Maui is definitely a good song - it's on my sea shanty playlist on my MP3 player. Though the version I have isn't sung by Stan Rogers.

[twistedchick]

Thank you kindly!

*rubs hands together in greedy anticipation of glorious sounds*

[resonant]

Yay! Thank you! I'm looking forward to listening to these.

[julian]

I see I voted for Thaw even before we got 94 inches of snow dumped on us; I guess I was prescient.

This is quite a mix -- thank you!

*tries to summon a question* Why those two GBS ones?

[thecataloger]

Downloading! Thank you =)

[tree_and_leaf]

Wow, this looks fabulous.

[lenora_rose]

Somehow the first question that jumped to mind is why Captain Tractor's version of Logdriver's Waltz and not the McGarrigles' one?

I have two other versions of Rollin' Down to Old Maui - One is by Spiers and Boden, and very British, the other is by Dandelion Wine, a Winnipeg band that teeters between folk and filk, with a particularly heavy dose of Stan Rogers on the folk side. (I sometimes suspect that if you put Nathan Rogers and Dave Clement in a room together doing Stan tunes, Dave would probably out-Stan Nathan. It has happened, just not in front of me.)

[raincitygirl]

Have downloaded, and will listen on my morning commute tomorrow. Thank you for upleading.

[mtl]

I am over the moon with glee! This is a wonderful compilation. Thanks!

[aella_irene]

I have downloaded, and am listening in sections, and it is giving me many feelings. Especially Stan Rogers and GBS.

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[(Anonymous)]

I am very impressed in general, but disappointed not to see anything by Rant, Maggie, Rant!!

CanFolk 2015

[(Anonymous)]

There is still no Rant Maggie Rant!!! What are you thinking?