Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest

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Folk 1960's British Columbia
Year 1961
Label Folkways FC 3569 (USA)
Format LP
Genre folk
Keywords Kettle Valley Line, Kicking Horse
Purchase / Links folkways.si.edu
Value USD $50.00

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Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest

By: Stanley Triggs G.

Origin: Unknown

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18 tracks

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18 tracks

  • The Oda G.

    Track 1 Side 1 02:27

  • The Wreck of the Number Nine

    Track 2 Side 1 02:02

  • The Blue Velvet Band

    Track 3 Side 1 02:13

  • The Homesick Trapper

    Track 4 Side 1 01:35

  • The Grand Hotel

    Track 5 Side 1 01:15

  • The Kettle Valley Line

    Track 6 Side 1 02:10

  • Lardeau Valley Waltz

    Track 7 Side 1 02:00

  • Tony Went Walking

    Track 8 Side 1 00:57

  • Sandy Morgan's Gin

    Track 9 Side 1 02:24

  • The Wreck of the C.P. Yorke

    Track 1 Side 2 03:38

  • Meadow Blues

    Track 2 Side 2 00:49

  • Brown Eyes

    Track 3 Side 2 01:25

  • The Lookout in the Sky

    Track 4 Side 2 02:01

  • The Mad Trapper of Rat River

    Track 5 Side 2 02:53

  • Lake of Crimson

    Track 6 Side 2 01:11

  • Moonlight and Skies

    Track 7 Side 2 02:04

  • So Long to the Kicking Horse Canyon

    Track 8 Side 2 02:03

  • Pretty Words and Poetry

    Track 9 Side 2 01:30

Insight

For many years working a variety of jobs in British Columbia construction camps, railroad gangs, logging and tugboat crews—Stanley G. Triggs’s resume would make any outdoorsman proud. Add folk singer and mandolin player to the list, and you have all the ingredients for Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest. Triggs eventually turned to photography and music-making for his living, but the repertoire he performed consisted mainly of those “folk” songs he had heard and sung in the logging and construction camps. He became a part of Vancouver’s folk revival scene, and someone suggested that he send a demo tape to Sam Gesser, a Canadian producer for Folkways Records.

The tracks featured on this album are drawn from Triggs’s experiences, and were still commonly heard in the camps at the time of the recording. Liner notes include lyrics and notes on the songs, illustrated with some of Triggs’s original photographs of the Canadian Northwest.

Stanley G. Triggs: mandolin, vocals

Cover design by Ronald Clyne

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