Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights

Overview

Smithsonian Folkways Alberta: Wild Roses, Northern Lights collects 19 tracks from one of Canada's most mountainous provinces. These are not scratchy recordings of trappers and Cree horseman captured over a campfire in the early 1900s, rather the songs on Alberta have feet firmly planted in the present. Recognizable Alberta natives like k.d. lang, whose "Big-Boned Girl" from 2006's Reintarnation gets the remix treatment, and Ian Tyson are sequenced alongside newcomers like the Swiftys and the Corb Lund Band. Highlights include the sweeping Celtic folk of the McDades' "Jonny's Flush/The Boiling Hen," the northern bluegrass of Maria Dunn's "Do You Know Slim Evans?," the Kubasonics boot-stomping Ukrainian throwdown "Polka from l'Viv," and the snowy country sounds of Tim Hus ("Alberta Crude") and the aforementioned Swiftys ("Sweet Rose").

Product Details

Release Date:	06/27/2006
Label:	Smithsonian Folkways
UPC:	0093074053829
catalogNumber:	40538
Rank:	138843

Tracks

1. No Roads Here
2. Church of the Long Grass
3. Land of the Shining Mountains
4. Big-Boned Gal
5. Oti Nikan
6. Wild Alberta Rose
7. The Harvest Dance
8. Alberta Crude
9. I Turn into a Cowboy
10. Sweet Rose
11. Half-Breed
12. Polka from l'Viv
13. Allez Ouest
14. Long Dusty Road
15. High Rider (The John Ware Story)
16. Do You Know Slim Evans?
17. Wind in the Wire
18. Jonny's Flush/The Boiling Hen
19. Four Strong Winds

Album Credits

Technical Credits

Ian Tyson   Composer
k.d. lang   Composer
Ben Mink   Composer
David Wilkie   Composer
Shannon Johnson   Composer
Corb Lund   Composer
Kevin Simpson   Composer
Tom Wilson   Composer
John Wort Hannam   Composer
Calvin Vollrath   Composer
Tim Hus   Composer
Tim Tamashiro   Composer
Terry Morrison   Composer
Maria Dunn   Composer