Dunn, Willie - The Pacific (re-issue)

Tracks

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Pacific
	2	Nova Scotia
	3	Lure of Little Voices
	4	The Dreamer
	5	Riddle Song
	6	William Shakespeare: Sonnet 33 and 55: Frindship Dance
	7	The Pacific Reprise
	8	Sumac Nuista
	9	Pontiac
	10	The Ballad of John MacLain
	11	T.S. Elliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Mohawk Round Dance

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The German reissue of Willie Dunn's second album on Trikont is something of a landmark. The Canadian Micmac Indian was there in the early days of the popularizing of the folk revival, a part of the action. Along with Ian Tyson and Gordon Lightfoot, he trod down to New York's hoot venues and earned whatever he could. Forty years later, Dunn is a celebrated musician, painter, playwright, director, activist, actor, videographer, and lecturer. He never sought to be a Native American musician, but a folksinger; his work, however, was so closely associated in Canada with the struggle of First Nation people, he became a Native American artist. His two albums, this one and Akwesasne Notes, are considered treasures in Canada. They should be in the U.S., too. In the classic tradition of early Lightfoot and Tyson, Dunn finds his topical songs rooted in the Canadian soil and in their waters. From the spoken poem of "The Pacific" to the dreamy languid "Nova Scotia" to his pairing of a Shakespeare sonnet and an Indian friendship dance and his worship of the land in "Sumac Nuista," Dunn paints vivid portraits of the Canadian landscape and social sphere. The disc ends with Dunn pairing T.S. Elliot's "The Love of Alfred J. Prufrock" and the "Mohawk Round Dance." I am sure Elliot would have been scandalized; listeners will be delighted.
-Thom Jurek

Willie Dunn became known in the early 1970s as a folksinger and poet of songs about his Indian heritage. The child of an Red Indian mother and a father from Scotland he is a singer with contradictions which he doesn´t try to hide.

Personnel:
Willie Dunn: vocals, guitar
Bob Robb: guitar, mandolin

Recorded at Studio 1714, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Studio Passport, Hull, Quebec, Canada.

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