Album / Title
Songs of West Canada
By: Tim Hus
Origin: Nelson, British Columbia → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦
Insight
The music on this debut album is solid country/folk storytelling deeply rooted in the people, places, and themes of western Canada. Tim’s writing style draws on personal experience growing up in this part of the world, working and living in a commercial fishing and forestry based lifestyle. The themes range from historical events such as the driving of the last spike on the C.P.R. to miners, loggers, salmon fishermen, rodeo cowboys, and British Columbia truck drivers. Combining genuine storytelling, distinctive songwriting, and spirited performances, Songs of West Canada is turning heads as an album of authentic Canadiana. buy this great album here: []
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Credits
Musicians
Tim Hus: vocals, acoustic guitar
Thomas Wenzel: lead guitar
Ecki Heins: fiddle, backing vocals
Peta Devlin: bass
Thomas Butteweg: drums
Songwriting
All songs written by Tim Hus
Technical
Peter Stein: recording
Recorded in Hamburg, Germany, December 8 and 9, 2001
Artwork
Stef Olcen: photography
Release
Self-released
CD album
Canada
2002
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Liner notes
Hello Everybody!
I’m Tim Hus and this is an album of West Canadian songs. I invite you to take a trip with me and visit some of the people and places in western Canada as you listen to these songs. Put on your stompin’ boots and let’s go!
The first song takes us to that all Canadian moment in history: the driving of the last spike on the C.P.R. at Craigellachie, B.C. on November 7, 1885.
Forestry has always played an important role out west and the second song tells of the people who work in the Bigwood Timber and the bushcamps, putting in long hours of hard and dangerous work in all kinds of weather and conditions.
I think the gravel pit and quarry workers everywhere will shed a tear or two over the Gravel Pit Song because they know exactly what “One of these days I swear I’m gonna quit” is all about.
Pick-up Trucks, Rodeos, and Dust takes us along for a ride in an old pick-up truck with an Alberta rodeo cowboy in the middle of a prairie thunderstorm.
The Seine Boat Song has its setting on the coast of Vancouver Island. Can you smell the ocean and taste the Salmon as you listen to this song about the fisherman and the salmon fishing boats out on the Pacific Coast?
The next song I would like to dedicate to my favorite Canadian singer: Canada’s Man with the Black Hat and the stompin’ board, Stompin’ Tom Connors. I listened to so many Stompin’ Tom songs in my life that I wore the heels off of most of my cowboy boots just from stompin’ along.
This set of songs wouldn’t be complete without a truck drivin’ song. Here’s one that rolls out of northern B.C., down Highway 97 and through the canyon on the Trans-Canada Highway and the Hells Gate Run.
The Highland Valley Copper Mine is the second largest Open Pit Mine in the world. This song tells the story of a crew of miners working at the bottom of a big hole in the ground in the B.C. interior.
Next it’s out to Alberta one more time with Goin’ Back to Calgary.
Hank Williams died almost 50 years ago but he left the world with some of its greatest music. Everyday there is somebody somewhere singing or listening to his songs because Everybody likes a Hank Williams Song.
Last but not least I would like to say thank you to Thomas Butteweg, Peta Devlin, Ecki Heins and Thomas Wenzel for playing with me on this album and Peter Stein for recording it.
Enjoy the trip,
Tim Hus
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