Triggs, Stanley G. - Bunkhouse and Forecastle Songs of the Northwest

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Oda G.	02:27
	2	The Wreck of the Number Nine	02:02
	3	The Blue Velvet Band	02:13
	4	The Homesick Trapper	01:35
	5	The Grand Hotel	01:15
	6	The Kettle Valley Line	02:10
	7	Lardeau Valley Waltz	02:00
	8	Tony Went Walking	00:57
	9	Sandy Morgan's Gin	02:24

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Wreck of the C.P. Yorke	03:38
	2	Meadow Blues	00:49
	3	Brown Eyes	01:25
	4	The Lookout in the Sky	02:01
	5	The Mad Trapper of Rat River	02:53
	6	Lake of Crimson	01:11
	7	Moonlight and Skies	02:04
	8	So Long to the Kicking Horse Canyon	02:03
	9	Pretty Words and Poetry	01:30

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Information/Write-up

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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