Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
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Artist: Stan RogersEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-01-08
Music Label: Fogarty's Cove
Soundtracks:
- Northwest Passage
- Field Behind the Plow
- Night Gaurd
- Working Joe
- You Can't Stay Here
- Idiot
- Lies
- Canol Road
- Free in the Harbour
- California
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Music Review: The Bard of Canada
Rating: 5 Stars
Anyone who ever had the good fortune to experience Stan Rogers in concert would never, ever forget him. He seized my attention from the first time I heard him; when I hear him now, on vinyl or CD, it still sends chills down my back. I credit him for sparking an interest in musical tales told well that endures to this day; I am saddened that I only got to see him perform once. He commanded the stage; he commanded your attention; and he gained an allegiance from people that he still owns. He has been gone now for 25 years, the victim of an electrical fire that went undetected until far too late on a flight he was taking home from Texas - a very dark day in my musical past - and I can still get into discussions about him at festivals. He is an enduring presence.
"Northwest Passage" has some of my favourite Stan Rogers songs on it. The title song, about Franklin's tragic abortive effort to find a passage to the Pacific, is done a capella, and the power of the intertwined voices on the chorus is spine-tingling. "Lies", another favourite, details a farmer's wife poignantly, her thoughts during the day as her man goes out to tend the land, and her hopes for the future. "Working Joe" is a droll treatise about a remarkably unburdened man not taking working life too terribly seriously; "The Field Behind The Plow" is another paean to farming, and is one I really took to heart;"The Idiot", the tune of which is Stan's jab at Morris dancing, which he thought unbearably silly, deals with an expatriot who has gone West to work in the oil fields rather than go on the dole; "Free In The Harbour" is another expatriot song, as the workers in the song discuss all the money they will be making, far away from their homes.
Stan was taken away from us far too young, but he left a wealth of work behind him that should not be missed by anyone who appreciates song-tales. And that voice, once heard, will never leave you.
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