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Tim’s second full length CD captures the essence of Alberta and the Rocky Mountain West. From rodeo cowboys to gold seekers and gun fighters, from oil riggers, vintage tractors, and wildfires to the Discovery Well – this is a tip of the hat to the centennial: 100 years of Alberta. Alberta Crude is distributed by Festival Distribution and is currently receiving airplay and very positive response throughout western Canada. NEWS: Click here view Tim Hus's first video of the song "Longest Stretch of Road".
ALBERTA CRUDE
Words & Music by Tim Hus
Copyright Tim Hus Music 2004
In the early days when they first struck oil out on the Alberta plains
Turner Valley rush and the oil camp dust derricks on the foothills range
Oilmen sitting in a tarpaper shack talkin’ about makin’ it big
Holes in the ground and the pipe goin’ down drilling on a cable tool rig
Up to Calgary there’s oil in the air, light in the night from the burnin’ of the flares
Stocks are a sellin’ and the hammers ring this is gonna be the next big thing
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The big calculators and the land speculators
And the bold tycoon attitude
The gold they found was the oil in the ground
And the story of the Alberta Crude
The story of the Alberta Crude
The search for oil is a difficult thing fortunes made and lost
The pull is strong on a wildcat song Drayton Valley oil rig boss
Imperial oil they drilled and drilled and every single hole was dry
They pointed to spot on the map at Leduc and said “Give it just a one more try!”
The roulette wheel goes around and around six thousand feet down in the ground
The great oil age was about to begin the day that Leduc #1 came in
Chorus
Bridge:
Black crude oil, it’ll pay the rent
Where they got all hell for a basement
The devil himself has a story to tell
About Redwater days or Pembina wells
There’s a downwind breeze from the refineries and the pipeline’s flowing fast
That’s the whole deal with the oil fields and the history of the oil patch
Thru the long hard years of dry hole drilling, heartbreak dreams and toil
The boom and the bust and the thrill and the rush and a billion barrels of oil
Where the iron rigs and the steel tools fought the battle for the fossil fuels
Badlands, tarsands, all of the rest: that is the story of the oil out West
Chorus
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Alberta Crude
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Credits
Musicians
Tim Hus: acoustic cowboy guitar, vocals
Spider Bishop: big butch bull fiddle, tractor-talkin’, background vocals
Rick Preston: acoustic and electric truck drivin’ lead guitar, background vocals
Brad Lindberg: blowout banjo, background vocals
Ben Beveridge: Saskatchewan fiddle
Ross Watson: oil riggin’ drums
Songwriting
Written by Tim Hus
© 2004 Tim Hus Music/SOCAN
Technical
Recorded and mixed by Rob Smith at Rocky Mountain Recording Studio, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mastered by Richard Harrow at Canada Disc and Tape, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Artwork
Photography by Brittney Anne, Stef Olcen, Lawrence Chrismas and Tim Hus
Graphic design by Cliff Johnson and Tim Hus
Back cover drawing by Cliff Johnson
Release
Saved By Radio Records
SBR0003
© 2004
Made in Canada
MAPL
Liner notes
Alberta represents the Western Canadian frontier spirit with rugged images of the Rocky Mountains, oil booms, buffalo hunters, whiskey traders, grain elevators, railroad builders, cattle ranchers, sodbusters, settlers, fortune seekers and pioneers.
The province became inaugurated on September 1, 1905. This album commemorates the centennial: 100 years of Alberta!
I have tried to capture the essence of the West in these songs: from rodeo cowboys to gold seekers and gun fighters, from oil riggers, vintage tractors, and wildfires to the Discovery Well. This is my tip of the hat to the wild rose province and the Rocky Mountain West. I hope you enjoy it - this is “Alberta Crude.”
I would like to thank Dawn Loucks and Jen Abel at Saved By Radio Records for helping me to realize this project and bein’ “REAL” Albertans. Thanks to my band: Spider Bishop and Rick Preston (The Rocky Mountain Two) for playin’ the tunes and the saloons, the musicians: Ben Beveridge, Ross Watson and Brad Lindberg for cappin’ the holes, and Rob Smith at the studio for his input, enthusiasm and dial punchin’.
Special thanks to Cliff Johnson for riggin’ together the album design and for quick-drawin’ the back cover.
I would also like to thank my family, my friends and all the straight shootin’, whiskey drinkin’ sons-of-Guns who have encouraged and supported me to pursue my brand of Canadiana Cowboy singin’. I hope you enjoy these songs!
Take it easy but take it
Tim Hus
March 2004
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