Heywood, Earl - Tales of the Donnelly Feud

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Donnelly Circle	02:13
	2	Three Candles in the Window	01:59
	3	They're Gonna Hang Jim Donnelly	02:02
	4	Sweet Maggie Thompson	02:50
	5	The Fightin' Feudin' Donnellys	02:04
	6	The Weding of Club Foot Bill	01:54
	7	Who Stole Thompson's Cow	02:09

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Granny Bell (The Fortune Teller)	02:13
	2	Two Big Brothers	01:32
	3	The Ballad of Big Jim Carroll (The Massacre)	02:56
	4	The Night They Shot John Donnelly	02:34
	5	John O'Connor (The Trial)	03:14
	6	Legend of the Old Roman Line	03:26
	7	One More on Satan's Side	03:09

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Information/Write-up

Released in 1970, Earl Heywood, "Canada’s Number One Cowboy" released the album 'Tales of the Donnelly Feud', a collection of 14 songs that chronicled the days of the Donnelley feud in south-western Ontario. The album sold 35,000 copies in Canada alone. Heywood later said, “the album did more for me than anything I’ve ever done.” He was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and received the Canada 125 medal and the 1999 Barn Dance Historical Society pioneer award. He died on Sept. 17, 2006, at the age of 89 he died in Brussels, Ontario.

Earl Heywood: vocals, guitar, harmonica
Chuck Reinhart: guitar
Ron McDonald: bass
Martha Heywood: organ, harmony vocals

All compositions writen by Earl Heywood
Produced by Jury Krytiuk
Engineered by George Semkiw
Recorded at RCA Studios, Toronto, Ontario

Cover art drawn by Stevedore Steve (Steve Foote)

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